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Federal Transportation Agency Calls for Speed-monitoring Software in Cars
New American ^ | November 29, 2023 | by Peter Rykowski

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.


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To: Rural_Michigan

. . .do what the Cubans do. .

If you are talking about them keeping their old cars running forever, Im already there. When I retired recently my boss gave me the title to my service truck. A 2011 F150 which I intend to be my ride until Im too old to drive.


61 posted on 11/30/2023 1:33:05 PM PST by ExSafecracker (. . . FJB . . .)
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To: AnglePark
Then work to have it changed, like any other law you may dislike or disagree with.

We should be so lucky to have such a possibility. The fact is that we do not. The more stupid the law, the harder it is to ever get it changed. Bad laws accumulate over time. So do bad lawmakers and judges.

That is why the law falls into disrespect and is so often ignored. It is a bad thing to lose the rule of law. We are not doing what is needed to keep what we have.

62 posted on 11/30/2023 1:33:46 PM PST by flamberge (We are living in those "interesting times" the elders warned us about.)
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To: flamberge
They are mostly a revenue generation scheme for local governments...

I don't see it that way. Speed limits are an integral part of safety *and* order. If you allow everyone to choose their speed, based on their perceived ability, road conditions or any other arbitrary decision they're allowed to make, you're asking for trouble and pure chaos.

If we had it your way, with no posted speed limits, everyone would be driving at different speeds and folks would lose their minds (and lives). Just imagine what would happen -- you'd have some folks driving 100 mph and others creeping around at 40 mph, both drivers endangering everyone around them. Posted speed limits give folks a benchmark to maintain safety and order.

And, legally, the speed limit works both ways. If you're driving well under the posted speed you can be ticketed as well. It's a hazard to life and property, the same as exceeding the limit.

Folks may not like the speed limit laws, but it's absolutely a necessary part of our society.

63 posted on 11/30/2023 1:51:39 PM PST by AnglePark (My opinion is the most worthless thing I own.)
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To: Red Badger

I have an idea, If you are caught speeding through a school zone (like the jerk I just followed home) then pass two cars in the left turn only lane, only to stop at the take out joint 1/4 mile down the road, INSTALL IT in his RAM Pickup! BTW, Tune your engine, the diesel smoke was putrid.


64 posted on 11/30/2023 1:54:53 PM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: Shady

Great idea to let the government control the speed of your car. But if you vote the wrong way this is what happens...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQw9HcvIo_o


65 posted on 11/30/2023 3:13:22 PM PST by brookwood (If we pay $400 billion for Green New BS, do we get a guarantee that the weather will improve? )
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To: brookwood

I was being sarcastic, that’s what police are for, of course. I don’t want these insane zealots anywhere near my utilities or transportation.


66 posted on 11/30/2023 3:23:01 PM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: AnglePark

Busybody. And it’s not the first time you’ve heard that, right? You like telling other people what to do.

How awful it must be to live like that. Angry with so many.

“If everybody listened to me, we would all be better off!”

Do you hear yourself?


67 posted on 11/30/2023 5:06:20 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Vivek for VP!!!!)
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To: Pete Dovgan
The number one killer of young people in America isn’t car accidents or Trauma. ITS DRUG OVERDOSE.

CHOICE!

1 in 5 pregnancies terminated!

68 posted on 11/30/2023 7:02:51 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: AnglePark
Obeying speed limit falls under both law and order.

In most places, "obeying the speed limit" falls under "obstructing the free flow of traffic". And most cops have the good sense to treat the speed limit as a suggestion.

69 posted on 11/30/2023 7:05:45 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Shady

I hate when people suddenly switch lanes in front of me, no signal, and then slow or stop completely to turn into a convenience store or liquor store.

BTW, what would one ‘tune’ on a diesel engine?.............😉


70 posted on 12/01/2023 5:23:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

East bound and down? Seriously, he is a first-class jerk. Maybe clean his glow plugs? LOL!


71 posted on 12/01/2023 6:14:14 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: Red Badger

“”What if there’s a medical emergency?””

Many, many moons ago, I had to race down the freeway. My 10 year old niece and her family left her insulin kit behind. They had only left our home an hour or two earlier, so I hoped I would not get pulled over. I did not speed in and out of traffic, I just went fast when it was safe. By the time I reached them, their RV had a flat on a causeway. My brother was very thankful not to have to change the flat alone. They also have extra insulin kits, but I couldn’t take the chance they didn’t.

Later in life my beautiful bride surprised me with an amazing gift. I got to drive a real Nascar 800hp car on a short track. I had learned from watching A LOT of Nascar (long before wokism arrived) that you accelerate out of the turn. When I first put the pedal to the metal, it felt like the Falcon Heavy launching.

To this day I have never had a moving violation. I am 68. Like many things in life, speeding is a choice. Either leave early enough to arrive on time, or call and state you are on the way. These days you can check traffic on the Internet and avoid backups and slowdowns. I just love watching idiots drive way fast on the freeway. Often, when I get off the freeway, that same speeding idiot is waiting at the red light.


72 posted on 12/06/2023 12:56:22 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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