Just when you thought it was safe behind the wheel of your large automobile, government attorneys are trying again to monitor your movements...My car insurance agent sent me a monitoring device with the offer of a discount if I used it.
...A veritable flood of data about drivers -- every turn of the wheel, every application of the brakes -- is about to be unleashed into the open market. [More]
I find it amazing that enough people take them up on it to make mass producing the damn things feasible. And, of course, I'm just waiting for it to become a requirement.
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It will be a requirement. If memory serves; DoT and IIHS have promulgated rules to mandate black boxes monitoring over 50 data points of vehicle operation.
The info will not be accessible to the owner.
Cheers.
Sounds like a great niche market for some enterprising techies ... Hacking those black boxes to disable the big brother snooping without disabling the vehicle.
If I wasn't retired, I'd consider it an opportunity to make some money while providing a valuable public service :-)
Statists hate the automobile almost as much as they hate the gun because it too enables personal freedom.
I was a car guy before I was a gun guy.
It was years later before I realized both passions were born out of a love of liberty.
It would seem, at least to this non-lawyer, that mandated use could be challenged on Fifth Amendment self-incrimination grounds -- at least in a land that respected the Constitution as its supreme law. Of course, if we lived in such a land, no one would presume to force this crap on us in the first place.
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