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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: rktman
NTSB -- โ€œActive 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.โ€

So there you are, driving along at the fed-governed 65 mph and you need more speed in an emergency situation. You phone Big Brother:

"Hey, BB. Yo! I need more speed. I'm in an emergency jam and need your authorization to get my car up to 75 mph for a brief time. Can you please authorize?"

"This is the NTSB. Thank you for calling. Your call is very important to us. Due to heavier than anticipated call volume, we will be with you as soon as we can. Your estimated wait time is 3 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes. Press 1 if you want us to call you back, or, if you care to wait, please enjoy this lovely selection of rap music."


81 posted on 11/24/2023 9:04:09 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (โ€œOccupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.โ€ ~ Thomas More)
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To: rktman

Just as long as the life of one native american child or transexual in a wheel chair can be saved, its all worth it.


82 posted on 11/24/2023 9:04:42 AM PST by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: Still Thinking

I live on a rural paved street. 1 mile from US highway.

Speed limit is posted at 35. Lots of walkers-—and people on horses..

The more recent a resident you are I can tell by how much you are SPEEDING.

ONE guy in a Charger likes to go about 60-65.


83 posted on 11/24/2023 9:05:10 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Gen.Blather

I believe you are correct about exceeding the limit when passing. Guess we just wait until we get to one of those passing zones eh? LOL! And I’m sure you mean extra 10 rd mags right?


84 posted on 11/24/2023 9:10:59 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: rktman

In the near future all ICE vehicles will be limited to 2.5 liter fuel tanks by the EV equity laws.


85 posted on 11/24/2023 9:18:17 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: rktman

more definitive proof that there is nothing sacred to government. speeding is a rite of passage to the young driver. as it should be. where we live those who drives the posted speed limit are called road hazards. just a fact.


86 posted on 11/24/2023 9:18:46 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: rktman

Congress could have put a stop to the NTSB’s rampant overreach years ago. They didn’t. All administrative rules developed by bureaucrats that have anything resembling the effect of law should be voted on by Congress. Fix this and the bureaucrats can scheme all they want.


87 posted on 11/24/2023 9:19:00 AM PST by jz638
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To: ridesthemiles

Yeah, our street used to be a dead end. Now new housing and our 25mph uphill street becomes a race way. And its not just the kids.


88 posted on 11/24/2023 9:26:21 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: dfwgator

Just TRY driving in Atlanta or Nashville. If you drive the posted limit, you will be killed.saw a video a few years back where all lanes in Atlanta were being blocked by an entire row of cars
Driving the posted speed limit.
Traffic was backed up for miles


89 posted on 11/24/2023 9:30:18 AM PST by midwest_hiker
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To: rktman

Of course they do. Did anyone not see that coming as soon as they obtained the power to control your car in any way? OF COURSE it wasn’t just for cops in high speed chases or whatever other excuse they gave. OF COURSE they were going to abuse that power to control you to an ever greater degree. That’s what government does.


90 posted on 11/24/2023 9:31:34 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Soul of the South

GPS systems are not perfect and controlling cars remotely, based on these systems, will end up killing people.
......

They don’t care.

A system that wants billions dead and pretends global warming will kill happily.


91 posted on 11/24/2023 9:33:34 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: cpdiii

Imagine you getting on a freeway and traffic behind you is getting closer and closer as you try and try to speed up then WHAM!!

The resulting fires from all the electric cars burning (and you too) will melt the roadway.

“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.”


92 posted on 11/24/2023 9:44:15 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: cpdiii

Shhh. You’re not supposed to think of the unintended consequences.


93 posted on 11/24/2023 9:48:08 AM PST by pfflier
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To: FLT-bird

How come they didn’t stop the flying Bently the other day at the rainbow bridge?


94 posted on 11/24/2023 9:50:59 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: rktman

Yes, the technology is surely there. My car navigation displays speed limit in the screen, but I have noticed disparity quite often.
However, this may be very dangerous!
Sometimes, one needs to step up on the gas as much as possible, regardless of speed limits, to avoid collision.
If the vehicle does not let you do this, crash would be inevitable.
I would say, I would be dead four or five times already, with this “feature”!


95 posted on 11/24/2023 9:51:06 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: beef
They will not stop you from speeding. It will just cut you a ticket when you doo. The only question is: one ticket per trip, or one per each crossing into speeding territory?

Probably allow a ticket or two before the technology disables the car. Doesn't matter that you're speeding to get someone with a medical issue to the hospital.

96 posted on 11/24/2023 9:51:21 AM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: DaxtonBrown
Seriously. This is why I drive a 1957 Bel Air and a 1967 Camaro. I could see this coming.

I got to call you on that one! It might be a reason but the main reason is that those cars are far cooler than modern cars.

97 posted on 11/24/2023 9:56:12 AM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: rktman
How come they didnโ€™t stop the flying Bently the other day at the rainbow bridge?

Because Big Brother WAS controlling the gas pedal?

98 posted on 11/24/2023 9:56:22 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Soul of the South

Our new overlords don’t care. Highway deaths mean population reduction. It’s all for the good of Mother Gaia.


99 posted on 11/24/2023 10:01:38 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: rktman

“...a campaign to “educate the public” about its “benefits.”

That is a direct lie. There are a number of very dramatic things wrong with this:

It does not educate anyone by taking something they can legally have now away like their own judgement

It does not place a minimum standard of speed to a car in traffic

It does not allow the state involved to determine their safety standards or limits

If it goes further, and the car is going to be controlled by a source not driving the car, if it reduces speed what are the results around the car with a fast reduction

If it is to reduce use of gas to back the reduction in the availability due to government restriction, does it not open the door to further efforts to get the public out of fossile fuel vehicles by limitation which by current inventories compared is not what the public wants

There’s more, but these are the immediate I saw.

wy69


100 posted on 11/24/2023 10:02:54 AM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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