[mc6809e]

I think it's a pure big-brother situation. Does anyone really deserve to live with a camera on them all the time?

Do you live in your car or something?

If not, then go home and close the blinds and you can have privacy. The road is public place and potentially dangerous. It would one thing if everyone had their own private road to drive on. No one would care if you drove recklessly. But these roads are shared and are public places. That means there have to be some rules.

[oceanview]

except that probably 80% of drivers exceed the speed limit on almost every road - and the black box shows that. so basically if they get into an accident where someone is injured, the "system" can make criminals out of them.

what will happen if this is taken to the full extreme - people will routinely flee the scene of accidents.

[weegee]

If there are "rules" then they would apply to all drivers and this would be mandatory equipment even for "classics".

This lawsuit is not being waged to protect the other drivers on the road, the case mentioned was about a passenger in this person's car. Would have been the same lawsuit even if they were on private property.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I don't accept the nanny state argument.

[unseen]

There are rules. speed limit, seat belts, signals, red lights, signs, DUI, child restraint, phones, radios levels, and on and on and on. You can pick any driver on any road in the USA and at one time they are breaking a rule or maybe many. So should we arrest every driver in the US? No of course not. Who goes 26 in a 25? and What happens if God forbid you hit a child that ran out in front of you between two cars going 26 in a 25? Should you be charged with reckless driving, speeding? You may not even know you were going 26 your speedometer is hard to read sure 25 and 30 is easy but 25 and say 27? But the black box nails it to the decimal point. So is this a good thing? If your going 50mph in a 25 and hit a kid there are several types of evidence that can be used. the tire marks, the distance the person was thrown, eye witness, impact on the car, etc . The black box is not needed. the only time a black box is any good is when the insurance company wants to deny the claim. and what if every car was tracked with a rifd and gps and cities and countries issued tickets every time you went above the sppedlimit? Is that a good thing?

[an amused spectator]

That means there have to be some rules.

As we learned during the Clinton era, rules (and LOTS of them) are for the little people.

And the Republicans, as I'm sure we'll be learning shortly as the MSM goes apesh*t over the rumored coming "indictments".