Posted on 11/24/2023 10:30:59 PM PST by John Semmens
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) wants to install Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) in all cars. NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy emphasized that "human error is the chief cause of almost all traffic crashes. The most common error is excessive speed. The weak link in our effort to eliminate this error is expecting drivers to heed posted speed limits. ISA would bypass this weak link."
"With ISA the vehicle's Global Positioning System (GPS) would coordinate with the posted speed limits," she explained. "Ideally, the ISA would absolutely control the vehicle's speed. Should this approach be deemed too intrusive, the ISA could simply record each instance of violation of the limit. Law-enforcement would have access to these records and impose fines or other penalties prescribed by law."
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called the ISA "a foolproof option for saving lives. By making it impossible for any driver to successfully break the law we will also achieve more of the unity that President Biden has set as the main goal of his administration."
In related news, Buttigieg called Biden's poor polling numbers "an unfairly negative assessment of the President's policies. Too many people have forgotten the dismal state of America he inherited from Trump. First there was the pandemic. Trump's crude lockdown order devastated the economy. His recommendation of unorthodox and ineffective therapies for fighting covid allowed millions to die. Then there was the Trump instigated insurrection against the transfer of power to the man voters elected to replace him. 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 that Trump allowed people to decline. I'm confident that when it comes time to cast a ballot next year the polls we are seeing now will be proven wrong."
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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.”
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.
So if you’re behind a truck spewing gravel, you just have to follow until your windshield shatters. Have I got that right?
Buy your Hellcat now!
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.
It’s the wrong speed for the conditions that is always dangerous, regardless of the posted limit.
Seems safe to me ;)
Too close to the truth
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.
Feds Want to Control.
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.
Imposing this will guarantee the obliteration of the Democrat Party.
Speed is not a cause.
It is a contributor to the effect.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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