Why is driver assistance technology a standard features of new cars? Is it the driver’s assistant, or his government-mandated nanny? From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
What if you had to obey – to the letter – every single traffic law, from no-right-on red to no-passing if the pass requires “speeding,” even a little bit? How about no “speeding,” ever? You drive the speed limit, period.
No faster, ever.
Imagine your car enforcing traffic laws – by not allowing you to ignore them. Well, that’s coming. In fact, it’s already here, in bits and pieces that will likely all be coming together. In order to make most of us not want to drive anymore – much less make monthly payments for the privilege.
Might as well just wait for a ride. It amounts to the same thing – sans the monthly payment. Oops. There will still be a payment – per the ride. But at least you won’t have to bother with a driver’s license anymore – although you will still be obliged to get and renew your national ID card and biometric identifiers, so that you can be scanned and debited per each ride.
You’ll need that ID to be allowed to buy cough syrup, too.
We need a mommgov apparatchik with a second set of pedals and steering wheel on the passenger side just to be safe.
A camera inside the car as well to record any facecrime, flatulence or finger flipping and if you do any of the above, the car shuts off, sucks for you if it’s on interstate.
Kind of like that meme of the child with toy steering wheel regarding US voters since 1964.