Posted on 09/01/2013 7:18:32 PM PDT by driftdiver
Under the proposals new cars would be fitted with cameras that could read road speed limit signs and automatically apply the brakes when this is exceeded.
Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, is said to be opposed to the plans, which could also mean existing cars are sent to garages to be fitted with the speed limiters, preventing them from going over 70mph.
The new measures have been announced by the European Commission’s Mobility and Transport Department as a measure to reduce the 30,000 people who die on the roads in Europe every year.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Here, they’ll just issue an automatic speeding ticket...
80,000 Euros for a 600 MBZ sedan and it can only go 115 KPH? RIIIGHT.
“It will likely take one day for some brainiac to come up with a hack to bypass the limiter and post the how-to instructions on the internet.”
In California, based on my experience, they’d quickly outlaw the bypass with a hefty fine, and impose mandatory, frequent and costly inspections on car owners, so they can check.
I do wonder how well forcing people who already own their cars to install the device would go over.
Force the automakers to install it, well, maybe. If they make it a requirement like an air bag. They’d have no choice.
Tell me to install it in my bought and paid for car? over my dead body..
Then again.. They are forcing me to buy health insurance....
The comments on the website give me hope that all is not lost in Europe. I think that Obama’s Fellow Travelers in Brussels may have overreached here. I liked the one involving rope and duct tape very much.
The technology doesn’t need cameras; these proposals were obviously from the minds of moronic socialists, and it will take engineers to make it work, probably with encoded radio signals. Of course, the possibilities of abuse are endless, the most obvious being the setting of all of the speed limits to zero.
It’s really too bad that Europe, lubricated with the blood of a lot of good people (European and otherwise), enjoyed most of the 20th century in a state of relative individual freedom, opportunity, and equality - which, of course, it cannot easily maintain because it is not Europe’s natural state, that state involving royalty and peasants/serfs (serfs being for all intents and purposes, slaves).
We've got an app for that ...
“I do wonder how well forcing people who already own their cars to install the device would go over.”
Oh, don’t worry about this. They will make an older car not so equipped impossible to license. And our idiotic pollution testing goes on here all the time with nary a grumble...
So the government is going to apply brakes to my vehicle and we have smart meters so they can turn off our electricity when they decide we’ve used too much. What’s next? Shutting down our computer when we log on to a Conservative website?
Ya, I thought about that, except that the Fed does not handle licensing the cars. States do. And while some will go along with it, I doubt all will.
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Like rust, totalitarians never sleep.
This will make for interesting chase scenes in movies.
"And for my final Executive Order of the day, I hereby revoke the right of states to license motor vehicles. Starting tomorrow, all former state license bureaus will be run by armed employees of the IRS."
“Ya, I thought about that, except that the Fed does not handle licensing the cars. States do. And while some will go along with it, I doubt all will.”
...but, California has so much “pull”, with over 10% of the population and even more car purchases, that CARB has an inordinate pull over the rest of the states; and, also, the Fed has already coerced the states to do many things that they didn’t want to do by threat of withholding federal funds (which came from the people in the states, of course), like pollution testing, speed limits, drinking ages, and so on.
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