Story after link. ( Will GM Be Driving Your Next New Car?) Seems GM's newest 'improvement' to the Onstar system is the ability to slow your car down, or even stop it, remotely. The writer also mentioned the obvious implication that it would be painfully easy to set up a system based on the same principal to ensure that it is impossible for you to speed. And of course anybody who believes they have a mandate to come into your car and install a system which can be employed to dictate wether or not it can even move will certainly feel empowered to dictate how fast it can go when it is moving.

While this would likely only be practical on the highway, assuming such a system actually is implemented sometime in the near future, a potential companion feature which the writer doesn't mention is the ability of such a system to monitor your speed on any 'unregulated' roads allowing the govt/ to simply mail you a ticket any time you creep above the posted limit.

All I can say is that items like this need to be brought to light in the current Presidential campaign and people need to be sure just how proactive their particular candidate is going to be when it comes to the notion of 'protecting you from yourself' As for me, I've already got one mom, I don't need another. Finally, for those who previously, and prematurely, accused me of hating GM.......the situation has changed, and you are now correct.

http://www.ericpetersautos.com/home/...id=14&Itemid=0

 

Having the ability to go over the speed limit is a nessessity for safty.

What if you are being chased or need to avoid an accident?

 

Arin no likey

Arin disapprove

 

That's plain stupid. Soon there will be so much technology the world will just die.

 

good thing my II doesn't have any computers :P

 

All the more reason to keep my '07 Mustang.

George Orwell and his nannies are popping up everywhere.

At least you still have the Second Amendment. I say march over to GM headquarters and let them know how you feel about this.

 

That last bit was actually pretty funny.

 

Good marketing opportunity : don't buy GM and Big Brother, buy Ford and keep your freedom.

 

These Times Right Now are the Good Old Days of the Future! Enjoy Them while you can! Big Brother is Here Now We just do not want to Accept it! It will keep creeping in slowly until it is too Late!


KC

 

I am right behind you my friend

(for cover, you know how it is)

 

You could always have a second War of Independence. You've got guns...TAKE BACK THE COUNTRY NOW and reinstitute the Constitution!

Solution? REVOLUTION!

And actually, I'm only half joking here.

 

As the Nightrider once said . .

 

Ahhh, Nightrider

 

So your saying all we need to protect America is a 3rd gen Trans Am and a poorly made leather jacket.

 

Not that Knightrider . . .

This Nightrider!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYLjlpP0NY

 

I thought you meant him initially but I didn't recall him saying that and I've seen the movie more than a few times. I bow to your Mad Max knowledge.

 

I have thought about this more then a few times. It really would be for the best.

 

Yeah, the current system and leadership is severely screwed up, we are desperately in need of some fresh thinking and new blood (and I'm not talking democrats either). A reboot would be perferable.

 

I watch "Mad Max" often.
It has been almost a whole week since I saw it last.
This week I watched the "The Road Warrior".

 

You are now on the Homeland Defense Department's "need to watch" list.
(I'm not sure if I'm joking.)