Big Brother is watching!
December 30th 2008 14:21
According to a report from The Commission for Integrated Transport and the Motorists' Forum in the UK. Speed-limiting devices should be fitted to motor cars on the basis that they would decrease the road toll and may have a small benefit in reducing CO2 emissions on UK roads.
These speed-limiting devices would be fitted on a voluntary basis (Yeh right!) and would, thanks to a system of satellites, automatically slow your car down to within the limit for the road on which it is being driven. Mmm, why don’t we just all drive Toyota Camry’s; they always seem to do 20kmh under the speed limit anyway!
Seriously though, the whole thing about this concept that it is simply Orwellian in execution. Big Brother (Not the crap TV show!) is not only watching but he is driving your bloody car as well!
Now AUTOLOUD does not and never has condoned speeding as a sport for public roads, drivers who excessively speed are idiots! The rest of us can fall foul as it is easy to do. A moments distraction and boom, booked! Let me throw something at you. Everyone agrees it is up to the individual on how they drive, I may sound a little cynical here but if you speed, then the revenue raisers (sorry, Police Camera and radar units) will book you and empty your wallet. What suddenly happens to that revenue stream when these cars no longer speed and therefore do not break the law? Common sense tells you that any Government will surely find other ways of getting our hard earned money into their pockets.
This could be the kind of stuff that violates our personal freedom, 1984 has well and truly gone but Big Brother is still with us!
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