Speed Limiters Will Kill Driving, by Eric Peters

Who the hell wants to drive at the speed limit all the time? From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

You’ve probably heard about what is being marketed as “speed limit assistance technology.” The italics to make a point of the fact about what is – as opposed to what they’re trying to get you to believe it is.

It is not about “assisting” you – just as you are not being “asked” to “pay your fair share” (an interesting assertion in that it is difficult to understand what constitutes a “fair share” of another person’s earnings).

It is about making you – in italics to make a point about the fact.

In this case, it is about making you drive no faster than whatever the speed limit is on any road you happen to be on. This is not going to be done – via technology – in order to “save lives.” That latter having about as much to do with it as “masking” did as far as “stopping the spread.”

Rather, speed is going to be controlled – in order to take away whatever little control remains in the hands of drivers, in order to exasperate them and thereby cause them to give up on driving.

Imagine what it will be like when your car won’t let you dive any faster than the government says you may. At first read that may seem – to some – to be a good thing, since it is “the law,” after all, to not drive faster than whatever the government says the speed limit is. Most people agree – understandably – that everything that can reasonably done to prevent people from ignoring laws that criminalize stealing (and so on) ought to be done.

But mark the italics.

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