Posted on 11/24/2023 10:30:59 PM PST by John Semmens
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) wants to install Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) in all cars. NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy emphasized that "human error is the chief cause of almost all traffic crashes. The most common error is excessive speed. The weak link in our effort to eliminate this error is expecting drivers to heed posted speed limits. ISA would bypass this weak link."
"With ISA the vehicle's Global Positioning System (GPS) would coordinate with the posted speed limits," she explained. "Ideally, the ISA would absolutely control the vehicle's speed. Should this approach be deemed too intrusive, the ISA could simply record each instance of violation of the limit. Law-enforcement would have access to these records and impose fines or other penalties prescribed by law."
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called the ISA "a foolproof option for saving lives. By making it impossible for any driver to successfully break the law we will also achieve more of the unity that President Biden has set as the main goal of his administration."
In related news, Buttigieg called Biden's poor polling numbers "an unfairly negative assessment of the President's policies. Too many people have forgotten the dismal state of America he inherited from Trump. First there was the pandemic. Trump's crude lockdown order devastated the economy. His recommendation of unorthodox and ineffective therapies for fighting covid allowed millions to die. Then there was the Trump instigated insurrection against the transfer of power to the man voters elected to replace him. It was President Biden who rescued the economy by adding trillions of dollars of new spending and saved lives by compelling millions to get vaccinations that Trump allowed people to decline. I'm confident that when it comes time to cast a ballot next year the polls we are seeing now will be proven wrong."
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They only reason that they hide the features is because they know that any typical driver will think that technology will save his life. The driver who depends on tech that never fails will always feel safe; the luck few will live and learn that he will only BE safe until he isn’t.
I’ve always considered an autopilot to be useless even when flying as PCI on a Cessna 172 equipped with one because I didn’t even bother with having the check pilot familiarize me with the autopilot. By definition, expecting an autopilot in conditions beyond my comfort zone (legally VMC but not good enough for me) depending on an autopilot makes me the most dangerous man in the sky.
You’re preaching to the choir here because I agreed with you all along, FRiend.
Been over 40 years since I took my last go around. Friend has Aronica Champ out as I drove past our grass strip and he let me do a few touch and goes. I think about going to our local airport and getting a ride with one of the instructors then I get over the idea. I am 85 now and have silly dreams of past years more regularly, then I just go take a nap.
That has been available to Ambulance a firetruck fo many years in some places. They used to send a incoded flashing signal of some kind, no idea how it is done today.
The way most of this stuff comes about is they sell the great stuff it can do for you and it can but they downplay all the bad stuff it allows them to do. Portable phone/computers are a chief example.
You got me beat. I’m just a 60-year-old spring chicken who grounded himself in 2003 because he was so obsessed that the hobby that it became too much like.
I still plan to get a checkride next year because if an instructor is satisfied that I’m safe in the air, it’s my outside confirmation that I’m healthy & safe enough to put my ass back on the motorcycle that I bought ~2 years ago and left parked after a year on the road.
RE: speed cameras and red light cameras....
In a post here when those were new ideas the FReeper referenced a news story that one city mistakenly allowed a company’s report to get out. It listed the intersections for paying the company to put in the intersection cameras the company sold. Some streets listed and then “Second Avenue at Anderson doesn’t have enough traffic. You won’t make any money on that one. Skip it.”
Showed the money making greed motivation instead of the “we want to protect our citizens and make them safe.”
That’s the one. Still haven’t watched it.
Thanks.
Nobody here speeds near the school one block away from my place so it must be the two speed cameras the city installed keep everyone safe.
True, and per red light - initially most jurisdictions were caught shortening the yellow time.
Washington DC, upon getting lower revenue, decreased speed limits further in areas that were 25 to 20.
These systems are also primed for abuse. It’d be relatively easy to exclude a list of tag numbers programmatically, from being issued tickets. I’ve always presumed that certain folks get a free ride from EZ pass in similar fashion (I call it nazi pass).
Thank you for that post. I loathe the people who tolerate red light cameras and speed cameras and “traffic calming” reduction of lanes.
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