“They have the speed recorded”
You mean a “black box” in the new cars? That’s as intrusive as recording your mileage to determine your road tax as Buttgieg proposes.
If your car is from 2013 or later, you are almost guaranteed
to have a black box. Less than 5 percent of new cars came
without one in 2013, and they are mandated in all new vehicles
since 2014.
A friend was in a serious accident that was caused by another vehicle doing something stupid, he hit my friend’s car and forced him into an oncoming vehicle. The driver who caused it lied to the cops, and he and the oncoming driver both sued my friend for damages.
He hired a lawyer who got the readout from his black box and proved in court that the other guy was lying and that my friend wasn’t at fault. He was totally exonerated, and proceeded to sue the guy who caused it.
Without the black box, he would have been royally screwed.
I’m not saying I like the idea of a black box, but sometimes it can really help you.
And it’s not in any way comparable to Butt Gig’s mileage monitoring proposal. The vehicle black box continuously records new data and writes over old data so that if an accident happens, the box stops recording new data and saves a record of what the vehicle was doing 5-20 seconds before the crash, during the crash, and for a short time thereafter.
https://atslab.com/forensic-services/black-box-data/