The American Addiction to Speeding - How we became obsessed with driving fast, no matter the cost. [More]
Shoot, don't they have licensing and registration?
Ah well, no worries. Speed governors will follow after we've all gotten used to breathalyzers.
I'm waiting for some hysterical control freak to demand that car GPS be used to identify and incriminate noncompliant drivers. And then for AI drive mandates until they outlaw private vehicles and force all non-elites to use pubic transit.
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Automaton big rigs are testing on the interstates now.
ReplyDeleteOnce the concept is proven we will move to automaton personal vehicles with air traffic control like tracking and monitoring. Deviation from your start and end points will not be permitted.
Then on to dedication of all interstates and significant routes for 'automaton vehicles only'.
Remaining vehicles that are driver controlled will be restricted to low speed, congested routes.
In the meantime, get ready for wayside monitoring of speed, souls on board, seatbelt use, emission system performance, and multiple other data points, any one of which being out of range will result in a signal to put your vehicle in limp along mode until you reach a state run compliance facility.
It ain't your car anymore, and you have no freedom.
Transporters would work for me.
ReplyDeleteBeam me over to the food store.
I can't even remember how many decades ago they started dinging people on toll roads for showing up with entry tickets timestamped too recently to have been possible unless the speed limit had been exceeded... but it was before GPS existed.
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