Posted on 12/13/2012 1:38:52 AM PST by STARWISE
.. zing ..
I smell a new industry in the offing...
And I will not buy a vehicle with one. (Spin your tires in snow, and the acceleration recorded will rival a cat shot, the deceleration a trap.)
I believe you will have no choice after a while. This will drive a number of folks over to the used car market for the next twenty to thirty years. I also suspect that a new tech training school will open which trains folks on how to remove or screw up the black box.
What would eventually happen, if we all just played along....is that your insurance company would get ahold of the data and begin to connect the dots. Aggressive drivers would be readily identified and forced into paying $8k a year in car insurance (which they richly deserve to pay), and the soft-pedal guys would start to pay $200 a year.
And given the typical Government Engineering standards. . . .they’ll be hacked in no time, allowing you to plug in a “governor” module and upload code that will not allow recording of events outside of normal tolerances. . .
Who could have possibly seen that coming?? (/s)
If that peckerwood tries to 'nationalize' the oil patch, I quit.
Obama doesn't need no stinking Congress. And the Republican Congress sucks anyway
because they will not stand up to the Democrats. Bunch of weasly pussies.
Still an increase for me. It isn't whether you are soft or hard on the pedal, it is a matter of driving appropriately for the situation. Sometimes, mashing the throttle pedal can be the difference between life or death, sometimes the brake.
Both have kept me from getting killed.
If whoever is reading the data wasn't there, they can't know.
Last thing I need is the stinking government backseat driving. You won't find GPS in any of my vehicles, either.
Oh. Like a voting machine!
I love Christmas lights.
They remind me of the people who voted for Obama.
They all hang together; half of them don't work, and the ones that do, aren't all that bright.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
Last month, I was offered a type of black box thing by Allstate, in return for a discount. It would monitor my driving for the 6 month period. I turned it down.
Amen.
Thank you, I just stole that and posted it on Facebook.
Obama: EPA Regulations Create Jobs; ‘EPA Touches on the Lives of Every Single American Every Single Day’
It is incumbent upon the honorable craftsman, to be aware
of whether or not the work of his hands and mind are being used toward an evil end — and to act, or NOT, accordingly.
What if the clerks who empowered Adolph Hitler... simply, hadn’t?
>>in all new cars and light trucks beginning in 2014.
Well, good thing the ol’ ‘85 Ranger is still ticking happily along then, isn’t it.
I’ll ride a bicycle before I buy one of his Majesty’s failed-out err, bailed-out corporatist fascist mobiles.
Up theirs.
Nice of them to decide to finally grow some journalistic cajones and start reporting on this crap AFTER the election. SIGH... but I doubt that it would have made a difference to the Obama-gimme voters.
So did I! Love it.
Enjoy your dictatorship, America. You voted for it
Very good summary. I may use that in the future. (at least until 12/21/12. LOL )
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