Well, that would suck!, Big Brother regulating your speed. Options

[Charles Deutsch]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ience_future_dc


Speaking at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (news - web sites), Linge said there were even talks about installing global positioning technology in cars that could regulate speed remotely.

"If you are in a 30 miles an hour zone, the system would automatically prevent the car going over that speed," he said.

[redshift]

"If you are in a 30 miles an hour zone, the system would automatically prevent the car going over that speed," he said.

Right. Fucking micro-managers.

Seems like there are alot of people out there who'd wipe the chance out of everything.

What a boring life, and it won't happen in mine.

Funding: Where?

Tunnels: Yeah

Reason: What?



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[seanery]

good luck making that work in my 914!!

[kdfoust]

This is already "out there."

I've got a friend that owns an Irish company that is using GPS technology to provide monitoring for INSURANCE and parental control purposes. It works like this: you install some hardware in your car (GPS, RF transmitter, etc) which then allows your car's speed and location to be monitored. This speed and location data is mapped against a complete roadmap of Ireland that has the actual speed limits for each segment of road (you see where this is going) and is transmitted back to a computer in HQ. The computer crunches your data to see if you've been driving the speed limit or not. The marketing angle is that he's got insurance companies to agree to lower rates for drivers that seldom (I don't know the exact statistics) exceed the speed limit. The target is young/new drivers where the insurance rates are very high. As you can imagine it can also be used to reconstruct accidents and provide parents (and others) with reports of your driving destinations.

When we were talking about this 2 years ago he had 800 clients signed up in the Republic of Ireland.

Have fun,
Kevin

[mharrison]

You realize that this is just a step forward from the in-car computers now that are being used against US Citizens in the case of an accident.

Here is a link regarding the use of in car black boxes to prosecute:
http://www.computercops.biz/article2526.html


Here is someone else who created a similar device.
http://www.privacytimes.com/NewWebstories/..._priv_11_16.htm

The only reason these haven't been hacked yet is that not enough people know about them. As it becomes more well known, people will excercise their rights to disable this "black box" as it is their personal property.

Long live the revolution !!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/flag.gif)

[ArtechnikA]

As it becomes more well known, people will excercise their rights to disable this "black box" as it is their personal property.

yes it is (unless the car is leased) and yes they can. (can you say 'warranty voided'...))