We'll be told it's all for the sake of (groan) "safety" -- just like the old 55 MPH highway speed limit and every radar trap in the country. Of course, it's really for the sake of revenue -- the government's and the insurance company's. Your rates will be "adjusted" in real time, for every incident of "speeding" or not buckling up. It'll be so much more efficient than using cops to issue tickets. After all, so many fishes escape! With an EDR in every car, no one will escape. Your "adjusted" premium will be waiting for you when you get home.This, of course is just the tip of the iceberg. If insurance companies (and the government) can track where, when and how fast you're driving, it can also monitor how much and how far. But oh! It's for the children! I mean, the environment.
It's almost Orwellian, to say nothing of tritely redundant, that the bill in question is titled "Moving Ahead For Progress in the 21st Century Act." I think it should be called: All Pigs Who Drive Cars are Equal, but Some are More Equal than Others.
Mrs. B, Thermostate is looking less like satire all the time...
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At least until politicians start getting publicly embarrassed by their black boxes!
ReplyDeleteDo you really think they'll be mandated on politicians' cars? Will Comrade Obama (for I've no doubt he'll still be Dear Leader in 2015, and maybe still in 2025) be required to have them on his 50-car motorcade when he and his 34 SS men have to drive 2 blocks for an ice cream cone?
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