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It may come as a shock to some but cars already keep track of that. I bought a new Toyota Highlander last year and they offered a 90 day free trial of their software package so I was playing around with the app and noticed a friends and family setting that allowed them to drive with features on, so I enabled that feature. The next time my wife went to town it notified me every time she exceeded the speed limit so they already do that. Just because you don't pay for the service doesn't mean those features are not present. Add the radar sensor to the cruise control and I dare you to accelerate when behind a slower car on the freeway. You can not accelerate the car without changing lanes. Also notice they way the lane assistant has control that will turn the car back into a lane if you creep over the white line.

The future is already here just waiting for the government to issue the laws and they will implement those hidden features. I suspect they can update software remotely as well.

You are correct that technology is being quietly implemented that can and probably will be used against us. I noted how several police cars with flashes and sirens went through a normally fair-timed intersection. But the lights stayed red for all other lanes but theirs until they'd passed - two cycles of red when they would have changed normally.

Meaning there's now a technological over-ride of the traffic light system available to law enforcement in many places. They already have license-plate scanners that run yours automatically when the police car gets behind you, bringing a plethora of information on you to their in-car display with nary a question about searches or privacy invasion brought up in a court room yet.

Considering these one can better understand how the police have morphed from our protectors to antagonists bringing in government revenue. It's just far easier for them to go along to get along for that sweet retirement package.

Oh...I was pebble sprayed by a big truck the other day. When able to pass I saw on it's side, painted proudly and professionally, "Stone Spitter". I love the Road Warrior movies but don't want to live them.

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.