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Feds Want to Control Auto Speeds [semi-satire]
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 26 November 2023 | John Semmens

Posted on 11/24/2023 10:30:59 PM PST by John Semmens

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1 posted on 11/24/2023 10:30:59 PM PST by John Semmens
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2 posted on 11/24/2023 10:32:49 PM PST by John Semmens
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg praised the unity that President Biden has set as the main goal of his administration and called Biden’s poor polling numbers “an unfairly negative assessment of the President’s policies.

The Secretary added, “It was President Biden who rescued the economy by adding trillions of dollars of new spending and saved lives by compelling millions to get vaccinations. I’m confident that when it comes time to cast a ballot next year the polls we are seeing now will be proven wrong.”


God forbid.


3 posted on 11/24/2023 10:42:22 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: John Semmens
Another good one, John.

The speed governors are just another link in the chain by which the elites mean to bind us into submission. Ultimately, no personal transportation, only common public transport, and precious little of that because we'll all be constrained to small places ("15-minute cities").

Power-mad control freaks, these bass turds are creating hell on Earth, one step at a time.

4 posted on 11/24/2023 10:42:58 PM PST by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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So if you’re behind a truck spewing gravel, you just have to follow until your windshield shatters. Have I got that right?


5 posted on 11/24/2023 10:54:13 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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Buy your Hellcat now!


6 posted on 11/24/2023 10:54:14 PM PST by Neverlift
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Politicians’ motorcades routinely drive much faster than the posted speed limits. You must understand the vehicles of these elites WILL HAVE NO SUCH LIMITS INSTALLED.

There are times when rapid acceleration is mandatory to evade or avoid an accident.

This is more tyranny by the all-powerful government and these limitations will not apply to the scoundrels mandating these limitations.


7 posted on 11/24/2023 11:00:31 PM PST by Gnome1949
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It’s the wrong speed for the conditions that is always dangerous, regardless of the posted limit.


8 posted on 11/24/2023 11:09:53 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I don't run; if you see me running, you should run too.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Seems safe to me ;)


9 posted on 11/24/2023 11:10:35 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I don't run; if you see me running, you should run too.)
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"Feds Want to Control Auto Speeds"

I suppose if you could hack the speed control you could sort-of point a vehicle, like a truck for example, at some particular building that annoys you, start the vehicle and then set the speed control for ramming speed.
10 posted on 11/24/2023 11:10:45 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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Too close to the truth


11 posted on 11/24/2023 11:13:05 PM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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It took this second thread for me to remember the SF story The Marching Morons by Cyril Kornbluth (1951 story).(someone posted on FR there is a similar movie plot by someone else).
Part of story synopsis——
People of higher intelligence often chose to have few children (or no children at all) for pragmatic reasons, while people of lower intelligence, compelled by their sex drives, had larger families and reproduced in greater numbers.
The simple-minded morons cannot be left to govern themselves or else the world will descend into chaos and war.

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Then the higher IQ people have to take care of the dumb ones and run everything for them.

So one thing they elites did for the low IQ people was have cars that could never go very fast. The speedometers would say 60 or 80 mph but the real speed was 15 or 25 mph. The drivers would be thrilled they were going fast.


12 posted on 11/24/2023 11:21:25 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Feds Want to Control.


13 posted on 11/24/2023 11:37:01 PM PST by SpaceBar
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This will make overtaking vehicles while travelling in the mountains rather problematic, I think. Then there is the whole “coasting downhill” situation, though newer cars already brake if cruise control is engaged and the vehicle exceeds the posted limit by a certain amount.


14 posted on 11/24/2023 11:48:05 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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Imposing this will guarantee the obliteration of the Democrat Party.


15 posted on 11/25/2023 12:13:01 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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Speed is not a cause.

It is a contributor to the effect.


16 posted on 11/25/2023 12:42:55 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Revoking a license and amputation of both legs at the hip seems like a much better idea.

On October 30th I lost a good friend to a distracted driver who blew through a crossroads onto 17N and T-boned. My friend died before sunup 10 hours later and his widow is still hospitalized.

Why the driver was not charged with anything beyond reckless driving is beyond me.


17 posted on 11/25/2023 1:17:47 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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Speed cameras issue citations with the picture of the vehicle at the scene.

The driver gets photographed, continues on their merry way, and gets mailed the citation a week or so later.

So, those systems have tens of millions of pictures of cars going over the speed limit, yet not one picture of an accident.

Think about that.


18 posted on 11/25/2023 2:58:18 AM PST by fruser1
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Maybe they’ll all be eliminated one day. If it weren’t for my family, I really hate this world so much, and the people in it, life, it’s just not worth it anymore. I’m a Christian but damn, the suffering our God places on individuals is just plain evil.


19 posted on 11/25/2023 3:30:52 AM PST by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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Strongly disagree. It’s not God placing suffering on individuals but the forces of evil in various forms - disease, bad luck (timing, circumstance) and other people who’ve fallen away from God.

And then there’s Satan who’s been very busy insuring he’ll have legions of company in the inevitable pit awaiting him.


20 posted on 11/25/2023 4:37:20 AM PST by MikelTackNailer
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