Geofenced, by Eric Peters

Big Brother cars are almost as scary as the coming Big Brother currency. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

Have you heard about geofencing? It’s like an invisible fence for dogs – applied to humans, using the invisible fencing made possible by connected cars. You don’t get shocked – like a dog – when you get too close to the edge of the invisible boundary. The car just won’t cross it.

Or it won’t go, at all.

You get in, push “start” (most new cars do not have keyed ignition switches anymore) but it won’t. Not because the tank’s empty or you’ve run out of charge but because an update was sent overnight to stop the vehicle from starting.

All made possible by this connectedness business.

Just like the invisible fence, you don’t have to see it to be kept within it. The car’s location is known at all times because it is connected – and transmitting – and that information is known at all times to the party at the other end of that connection, which can be safely assumed to be the corporate-government nexus; i.e., the car’s manufacturer, which has become a kind of adjunct of the government, along with the insurance mafia (which has become a kind of enforcer acting on behalf of government).

The connected car’s movement (and velocity) as well as other operating parameters can be kept track of, too. Just ask Flo – or the Geico Gecko. Or for that matter, the New York Times – which actually published a story recently about how telemetry was being transmitted by people’s cars without their knowledge or consent and being used to mulct them for driving outside the fence, so to speak.

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