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Government-Corporate Automotive Fascism in Europe, coming to US?
« on: September 06, 2013, 04:25:40 PM »
http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/09/03/speed-limiters-rolled/

Europe is floating a mandate that all vehicles must automatically read speed limit signs and then electronically govern the available top end of the vehicle.  And mandating that all non-equipped vehicles be retrofit.  And mandating that all vehicles unable to be retrofit, be banned from roads.

Eric Peters adroitly notes that the "black box" debate from a few years ago, where some vehicle manufacturers were putting data logger boxes into their cars and customers didn't want to pay for it (or wanted it removed)... the end result was the industry lobbying as a whole for a mandatory law for all manufacturers to have such a box, eliminating the consumer's preferences in the Invisible Hand of the economy.

Same thing happening here.  Who on earth would ever buy such a vehicle?

No one.

Unless it's all that is available.
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« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2013, 04:42:20 PM »
Won't fly for this reason alone....  How are municipalities going to make speeding ticket tax revenue?
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« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2013, 04:49:43 PM »
Won't fly for this reason alone....  How are municipalities going to make speeding ticket tax revenue?

Feds don't get speeding revenues.

GM/Ford/Toyota/etc lobby Congress.  Not Possum's Tail City Council.
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« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2013, 05:01:43 PM »
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And mandating that all non-equipped vehicles be retrofit.  And mandating that all vehicles unable to be retrofit, be banned from roads.

I think that part won't let it fly in the US (for a while anyway). Way too many of us driving older vehicles. I'm also thinking it would be pretty difficult to retro-fit to a motorcycle.
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« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2013, 05:07:56 PM »
Seems like it could be fought on 4th amendment grounds.
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« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2013, 06:12:47 PM »
Seems like it could be fought on 4th amendment grounds.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....


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« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2013, 07:21:22 PM »
Feds don't get speeding revenues.

GM/Ford/Toyota/etc lobby Congress.  Not Possum's Tail City Council.

No, but the congresscritters in Washington have to listen to the local governments.  If you start talking about taking big chunks of money out of their budgets, someones going to be crying. Wasn't there a tread about some city makes 25% of its budget on tickets?  That's big money.
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« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2013, 10:51:48 PM »
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....


It's cute how you act like we have a 4th Amendment right to anything anymore.

No rights exist except for those we are willing to fight for.
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« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2013, 03:46:25 AM »
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the end result was the industry lobbying as a whole for a mandatory law for all manufacturers to have such a box, eliminating the consumer's preferences in the Invisible Hand of the economy.

Which will create an entire cottage industry of people who reprogram/defeat/replace malignant black box with something more favorable to the consumer.
....or just stash a non-.gov controlled vehicle in the sewers for a rainy day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teFXjTSQGDQ
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« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2013, 11:30:08 PM »
And people wonder why I like (most of) the mid-60's to early 70's cars.

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« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2013, 01:18:38 AM »
Won't fly for this reason alone....  How are municipalities going to make speeding ticket tax revenue?

That.  Cities and service providers have too much to lose.  No one really ever wanted people to drive safe; there's no money in it.
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« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2013, 01:20:14 AM »
Feds don't get speeding revenues.

GM/Ford/Toyota/etc lobby Congress.  Not Possum's Tail City Council.

Feds got lobbyists, just like the cities that put in speed cameras - for which the UK is the world leader.  Floating is one thing.  It won't pass there or here... and it will be promoted as a victory for liberty when it's only about money.
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« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2013, 06:23:37 PM »
Yeah, we didn't want national health care and we got it anyhow.  We still don't want it and now neither party supports the little people's position.  We exist to provide gainful employment to the Praetorian class.
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« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2013, 06:45:15 PM »
Yeah, we didn't want national health care and we got it anyhow.  We still don't want it and now neither party supports the little people's position.  We exist to provide gainful employment to the Praetorian class.

Pro tip: The 'Praetorian class bleeds just the same as us common proles.
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« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2013, 06:54:28 PM »
Why should the praetorian class need to worry about bleeing when they have all us proles to do it for them?
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« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2013, 10:20:17 PM »
Imagine millions of speed limit signs,  mysteriously vandalized...

Admittedly,  many speed/red-light cameras go unscathed,  but I can't see this going without any repercussion.

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« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2013, 11:15:28 PM »
Feds don't get speeding revenues.

GM/Ford/Toyota/etc lobby Congress.  Not Possum's Tail City Council.
Why would manufacturers want this?  It would get in the way of selling all those great engine and dashboard upgrades. 

Only way I can see is a compromise to relax Clean air act standards. 
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« Reply #17 on: September 10, 2013, 10:32:37 AM »
I was thinking about this some more.  We have had speed governors available in this country to a while now.  I seem to remember them being almost common on some cars in the 80's.  People hated them for the most part.  I think the only place you might still see something like that is on fleet or work vehicles.  I really can't see people putting up with that. 

Also, speed limits vary from state to state and even within states so it would also require another national speed limit.  That may be an environmentalist's wet dream, but no one else wants it.
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« Reply #18 on: September 10, 2013, 11:02:43 AM »
I was thinking about this some more.  We have had speed governors available in this country to a while now.  I seem to remember them being almost common on some cars in the 80's.  People hated them for the most part.  I think the only place you might still see something like that is on fleet or work vehicles.  I really can't see people putting up with that. 

My 2013 Focus is speed limited to 140mph IIRC.  Not that it matters to me, I have no desire to go that fast in a "normal" car.

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« Reply #19 on: September 10, 2013, 11:10:11 AM »
My '68 M715 is speed limited to about 60MPH by inherent mechanical limitations. That and trying to drive that thing any faster exceeds my pucker limits. 
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« Reply #20 on: September 10, 2013, 04:25:25 PM »
My '68 M715 is speed limited to about 60MPH by inherent mechanical limitations. That and trying to drive that thing any faster exceeds my pucker limits.
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« Reply #21 on: September 10, 2013, 05:15:47 PM »
I had an '88 Ranger 4X4 as a company vehicle for a while. It was a major POS by the time i got it. Any speed over 60 MPH was taking your life in your own hands.
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« Reply #22 on: September 10, 2013, 05:59:05 PM »
I simply can't see the Germans, with their Autobahns, going for this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22538856
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« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2013, 06:03:25 PM »
With all the whizmo tech being added to cars, I can sorta see some sort of speed limit detection and warning system - just to let you know when the speed limit changed in case you didn't notice.

But I can't see it being in the governments' interest to get people to slow down and not get tickets  ;/
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