Ravenwood - 12/05/05 07:15 AM
Who needs a wife to nag you about driving too fast, when the government can install a monitoring device to slow your car down for you. That may just happen to Canadian drivers. The government of Canadia is exploring technology to control driver's cars from the inside.
The system being tested by Transport Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Department of Transportation, uses a global positioning satellite device installed in the car to monitor the car's speed and position. If the car begins to significantly exceed the speed limit for the road on which it's travelling the system responds by making it harder to depress the gas pedal, according to a story posted on the Toronto Globe and Mail's Website.
Category: Fall of Western Civilization
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You gotta love socialism.
Posted by: Derek at December 5, 2005 9:11 AMJust the kind of car you'd want to have should the need arise to outrun a tornado.
Posted by: Bruce at December 5, 2005 9:12 AMYou know, garages should start offering "de big brothering" packages.
For $49.95, they'll disable the gps, accellerator friction solenoid, speed governor, black box tattle tale storage, seat belt lights, and scan for rfids.
Get the delux package, and they'll blow the high performance firmware into the motor's cpu.
Posted by: geekWithA.45 at December 5, 2005 9:25 AMAlso apparently being considered by our big brother government here in England.
I'm considering buying something suitbly vintage without engine management kit. Or a pair of pliers.
Posted by: Chris at December 5, 2005 10:30 AMI doubt you'll get anything (other than a laugh) out of a mechanic for $49.95. But it's a service I'd be willing to pay for.
Posted by: Ravenwood at December 5, 2005 11:23 AMNot just Canada and Britain: see Declan McCullagh tells of the latest federal grants.
h/t Claire
Posted by: Bob Reynolds at December 6, 2005 3:10 AMOur town has electronic speed limit signs in three places the signs show the speed of the car is going flashing SLOW DOWN AND SHOWING THE SPEED hmm well thats canada and its slowly becoming a socialists nation
Posted by: sandpiper at December 6, 2005 10:14 AMI see a great potential for lawsuits here. "The car made me drive slow when I was trying to get to hospital" or "I was rear ended when the mechanism malfunctioned"
Can the government get sued?
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