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Now Big Brother wants to control the gas pedal in your car 'Fully prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit'
wnd.com ^ | 11/22/2023 1602 hrs | Bob Unruh

Posted on 11/24/2023 7:36:20 AM PST by rktman

Just when you thought there were no parts of your life not already under the thumb of the federal government, a new idea emerges.

This time it comes from the National Transportation Safety Board and it involves outsiders having control of the gas pedal in your car.

While you're driving, of course.

The proposal from the NTSB is to install "intelligent speed assistance" tech in all cars, a system that uses a car's GPS location and local speed limit postings "to help ensure safe and legal speeds."

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


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To: dfwgator

Yep.


41 posted on 11/24/2023 8:06:09 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Wuli

I am not worried for me. My Red Barchetta is stored in country place no one knows about.


42 posted on 11/24/2023 8:06:11 AM PST by ohioman (ncestorts.)
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To: econjack
Your post reminds me of the scene in Idiocracy with the vacuum that keeps saying, "your floor is now clean"and it keeps repeating it as it rams into the wall.

Idiocracy -Your floor is now clean

43 posted on 11/24/2023 8:06:29 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: William of Barsoom

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free


44 posted on 11/24/2023 8:06:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Blue Highway

LOL sounds like my Roomba.


45 posted on 11/24/2023 8:07:14 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: brownsfan

See my tagline.


46 posted on 11/24/2023 8:07:24 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: rktman

Gee - wont it be fun driving along, obeyign the speed limit, and then having your car speed up with no input from you, and then a week later get a speeding ticket? IF they can control the top speed- they can manipulate your speed at will- both up and down-


47 posted on 11/24/2023 8:07:31 AM PST by Bob434
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“CELLPHONES.”

That is certainly a factor, but not the only one. Education, entertainment, and general cultural issues are also involved.


48 posted on 11/24/2023 8:10:37 AM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: dfwgator

“Until the GPS is hacked and the Speed Limit is set to 120 MPH through a school zone. WEEEEEEEEE!”


There is a school zone that I occasionally pass through when I’m going to Helena or Great Falls, MT — the yellow lights blink when children may be present (before and after school). It becomes a 55 MPH zone!


49 posted on 11/24/2023 8:10:52 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

I’m convinced truckers do this crap (riding side by side) to piss off all other drivers


50 posted on 11/24/2023 8:12:01 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: rktman
If the fascists in government have their way, they will be able to turn off your car remotely, limit its speed, force it to go to the gestapo police station, and prevent you from driving during "climate emergencies."
51 posted on 11/24/2023 8:12:36 AM PST by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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To: rktman

Every little pissbag town in America that depends on robbing travelers for their budgets will oppose this idea.


52 posted on 11/24/2023 8:14:48 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: dfwgator

90 minutes from NY to Paris, there’ll be spandex jackets one for everyone


53 posted on 11/24/2023 8:16:51 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: rktman

Never been a better time for me to fulfill that dream of a 67 Mustang...


54 posted on 11/24/2023 8:20:43 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Doctor Congo

Ever had a dream where you can’t run fast, just slow, so you are unable to get away. Klaus had that dream for us and now it is true.


55 posted on 11/24/2023 8:23:38 AM PST by norsky (<P> <a href= > </a> <P><h3> <P><img src=" "width=500"></img>)
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To: rktman

Land of the Freeā€¦


56 posted on 11/24/2023 8:27:38 AM PST by EEGator
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To: cpdiii

....but politicians know better. I can’t imagine there’d be unintended consequences.

/s


57 posted on 11/24/2023 8:27:51 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: rktman

As a software architect in the automotive industry, I’ve been waiting for this. Several years ago, I rented a car in Germany, the damn thing beeped every time I went over the speed limit....I thought, “ah....great, we’re just one software update away from the car refusing to go over it”.

...emergencies or other circumstances be damned.


58 posted on 11/24/2023 8:29:38 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: dfwgator
Sometimes you need to go fast.


59 posted on 11/24/2023 8:31:08 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: rktman

I remember staff cars in the military 1966-1969 had special governors on them. All the drivers knew how to bypass them if the officer was in a hurry.


60 posted on 11/24/2023 8:31:14 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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