Posted on 11/30/2023 7:55:01 AM PST by Red Badger
A federal agency is calling for a nationwide mandate requiring new vehicles to have software surveilling American drivers for adherence to local speed limits.
On November 14, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published a news release advocating “intelligent speed assistance technology and countermeasures including interlock program for repeat speeding offenders” in “all new cars.”
The agency cited an investigation it conducted into “a multivehicle collision in North Las Vegas, Nevada, last year that resulted in nine fatalities” — finding it was “caused by excessive speed, drug-impaired driving and Nevada’s failure to deter the driver’s speeding recidivism due to systemic deficiencies” — as its rationale for mandating the new technology.
The NTSB’s news release explains how intelligent speed assistance technology (ISA) functions and operates:
Intelligent speed assistance technology, or ISA, uses a car’s GPS location compared with a database of posted speed limits and its onboard cameras to help ensure safe and legal speeds. Passive ISA systems warn a driver when the vehicle exceeds the speed limit through visual, sound, or haptic alerts, and the driver is responsible for slowing the car. Active systems include mechanisms that make it more difficult, but not impossible, to increase the speed of a vehicle above the posted speed limit and those that electronically limit the speed of the vehicle to fully prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit.
The NTSB further urges car manufacturers to install ISA in new vehicles, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to promote and mandate such technology, among other recommendations.
The NTSB’s recommendation is not the first assault on privacy and individual freedom in relation to driving. For example, car manufacturers are currently mandated to install equipment in cars to detect intoxicated or impaired drivers and, if impairment is detected, prevent the car’s operation — a mandate the U.S. House failed to stop earlier this month.
With such broad-based assaults on individual liberty and privacy, an informed and vigilant electorate is more important than ever.
While I’m fully against this big brother, big government proposal, you may as well add to the list:
Criminals gonna crime.
Speeding is against the law. It’s two large, easy to read numbers on a sign. I simply can’t understand why the vast majority of folks don’t understand or obey it.
Hell no, get the government face out of our face. They no longer do the jobs that they were supposed to do for America. They do everything they were not supposed to be doing.
GTFOOOL
....anticipating some sort of compromise twixt Big brother and the auto industry:
what might be acceptable to freedom loving auto owners ?
15 mph over posted limit ?
25 mph over post limit ?
no limits whatsoever.
Moot point I suspect as a new congress and President would reverse the proposal if necessary. The SC is likely to stop administrative overreach sooner.
And your next-door neighbor lib busy-body will report you to the Stasi if you try to disconnect this.
My 2003 Toyota Corolla and my 1992 Ford Explorer meet my needs just fine.
You are, for buying a car with a monitor.
The question will the device be a monitor or a governor that limits your speed.
I’m quite certain the moment you’ve stepped outside your doorstep, made a trip to the grocery and back home you’ve broken half a dozen “laws” and don’t even know it. This is how “regulated” we are. An interesting challenge…. There is not a single object on this planet that you can name for me that isn’t regulated or have a law attached to it. Can you name one ?
Step 1 monitoring -1st year maybe 2.
Step 2 speed limiting with criminal charges attached to disabling the tech
Yes, my fingernail. Don't speed.
You can speed, you will just get a ticket in the mail thanking you for funding the government.
They do this crap , but Trump is the authoritarian tyrant.
And this is the real point: “uses a car’s GPS location”
They could not care less about speeding. It’s all about tracking people.
There is a book, My Six Convicts, in which a study is mentioned in passing that estimated that the average law-abiding U.S. citizen would, in the course of one year, break enough laws to be sentenced to more than 1,800 years in prison and fines of over $2 million. That book was published in 1951.
Because the law does not really matter.
Most laws do not really matter. That is because stupid people keep making up new laws to control and punish other people they don't like. That often works out very poorly.
We would be much better off to keep laws that do matter and remove laws that do not matter. There is plenty of reasonable arguments as to which laws should be on which list.
But it needs to be done. And it is not being done. We continue to accumulate bad laws until the whole system loses the respect of the people.
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of might. (Edmund Spenser)
The government can’t help but restrict your/our freedom at each and every turn. Too bad we don’t have an opposition party.
Are you saying the speed limit laws don't matter, are there just to punish folks others dislike, and should be done away with entirely?
As soon as they install spending monitors on themselves I’ll consider but still reject this idea.
In Italy they call speed limits a “suggestion”. And the cops will argue with you for an hour over something silly and then usually let you go. I’ve never heard of anyone getting speeding ticket there. They love to hand out parking tickets though.
Yeah, let’s all suffer and be controlled so democrat criminals and illegals can continue to cause accidents because they’re drunk or under the influence of illegal drugs or don’t have a driver’s license because they’ve caused so many accidents.
More BS crap to hurt the lawful so democrat scum can have an excuse for their inexcusable lowlifes.
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