Big Brother in the passenger seat

[oldag]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets...s-mandate-technology-reduce-speeding-new-cars

Not only do they want to monitor your speed, they will monitor your location everywhere you drive.



The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has urged another government agency to mandate that new cars have intelligent speed assistance (ISA) technology in them.


The investigative agency put forward the recommendation on Tuesday and directed it toward the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). New cars should at least have mandated passive ISA technology that provides speeding alerts to drivers, according to the NTSB.

ISA systems can determine whether someone was driving their vehicle at an excessive speed by comparing "a car’s GPS location" with a "database of posted speed limits and its onboard cameras," the agency explained.

 

[General Zod]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets...s-mandate-technology-reduce-speeding-new-cars

Not only do they want to monitor your speed, they will monitor your location everywhere you drive.



The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has urged another government agency to mandate that new cars have intelligent speed assistance (ISA) technology in them.


The investigative agency put forward the recommendation on Tuesday and directed it toward the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). New cars should at least have mandated passive ISA technology that provides speeding alerts to drivers, according to the NTSB.

ISA systems can determine whether someone was driving their vehicle at an excessive speed by comparing "a car’s GPS location" with a "database of posted speed limits and its onboard cameras," the agency explained.

I predict a healthy cottage industry centered around disabling said technology.

 

[benenglish]

Y'know, I remember pictures from a toll road in France. If you passed too quickly between two toll booths, you'd get a ticket for speeding. Businessmen who used one particularly long route between toll booths were especially frustrated since they could easily arrive at the next toll booth 20 minutes early. Their solution? They would drive as fast as they wanted. Before the last toll plaza, though, they'd pull off on the shoulder and eat their lunch in their car.

Using GPS to track speed will make such simple solutions impossible.

I predict a significant increase in sales for GPS jammers or a significant bump in demand for techs who know how to disconnect/disable this crap.

ETA - Ninja'd, but only because I'm too damn long-winded.

 

[TheDan]

 

[kbaxter60]

I predict a healthy cottage industry centered around disabling said technology.

I predict a healthy decrease in new car sales.

 

[jmohme]

I love my ratty old dodge

 

[Axxe55]

I love my ratty old dodge

older less advanced vehicles are looking better!

 

[Texasjack]

It makes it nearly impossible to steal your car. One phone call and it shuts down. Think the insurance companies will give us a discount?

The ability to track your car and shut it down is already on most cars anyway. GM's OnStar does that. Ford's system does it. Toyota does it. Ultimately they have to do it because electric vehicles aren't paying any road taxes (via the gas pump). States will have to switch to taxing us by the mile. (Hey, the government is suffering! The cost of coke and hookers keeps going up.)

 

[Tnhawk]

The last few years I worked, I had to live with a tracking device in my company truck. Some of our managers had nothing better to do than monitor the location, speed, braking, parking of the technicians. I don't want to have an insurance company or the government monitoring every move of my vehicles.

 

[MountainGirl]

 

[jmohme]

The last few years I worked, I had to live with a tracking device in my company truck. Some of our managers had nothing better to do than monitor the location, speed, braking, parking of the technicians. I don't want to have an insurance company or the government monitoring every move of my vehicles.

If they really wanted to they could just track your smart stupid phone.
More so than ever, privacy is an illusion.

 

[G O B]

When company GPS cell phone came out, lunch at the bar would cost you your job.

 

[alternative]

The solution, stop and spend 2 hours charging your EV.

 

[Tnhawk]

The solution, stop and spend 2 hours charging your EV.

Don't leave the empty cans in the EV.

 

[reddog]

I decided a while ago that I wasn't buying anything newer than what I already own. Getting ready to do some engine rebuilds and once those are done I should be good for another 300K in 3 different trucks. Figure they will outlast me.

 

[Lead Belly]

Who do you think will pay for this new system? Manufacturers? Mandators? ...I wonder who will get stuck with the tab for the glitchy implementation for this new "feature".

 

[servis]

Consumers will ultimately pay for it. Probably not just the direct buyers. No GPS tracking/monitor, insurance rates go up. Toll booth and no "1984 module", higher toll rates. One way or another, some bureaucrat will turn this into law without any representation for citizens. For ever and ever, Amen

 

[Eastexasrick]

I decided a while ago that I wasn't buying anything newer than what I already own. Getting ready to do some engine rebuilds and once those are done I should be good for another 300K in 3 different trucks. Figure they will outlast me.

3. Pre talk to the mothership vehicles. 2 will get fresh engines, The other is the shelf queen (no ECM) with very low mileage. They should last till the petro industry dissolves. Or I do.

 

[jmohme]

Who do you think will pay for this new system? Manufacturers? Mandators? ...I wonder who will get stuck with the tab for the glitchy implementation for this new "feature".

Implimentation is probably nothing more than a simple firmware update on most existing vehicles made in the past several years.