Virginia will use technology to slow chronic speeders’ cars—and other states are rushing to join in
Virginia will use technology to slow chronic speeders’ cars—and other states are rushing to join in
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There’s gotta be a “subscription fee” for these speed limiters for every month they’re installed foe the offender. Fees to install them. Fees to remove them. Fees for the convenience of the ability to make electronic payments. Then there’s the fine for speeding in the first place, the convenience fees to pay the fine, the fee for the traffic safety course online to avoid higher insurance rates, etc.
The State is being enshittified by privatization. It’s not as if the State isn’t difficult enough to deal with on its own, but now the layers of shitty middle men existing to extract tolls for every interaction is growing.
Edit: after looking around I found this program is called “Intelligent Speed Assistance” (ISA).
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@RememberTheApollo @cm0002
Speed limiters should be standard on all cars, like seat-belts. They should be retrofitted on older cars. A GPS module isn't that expensive. They are found in cheap phones that cost less than $50. Most cars on the road today have an ECU (Electronic Control Unit) The air and fuel mixture can be controlled to keep the car under a specific speed, easily. There is no reason a car needs to go 70 mph ever. 25 should be the top speed.
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I recently rented a huge truck (the biggest you can rent with a normal car drivers license) and it had a ton of high tech stuff, lane departure warning, speed warnings, auto braking, and so much more.
The issue was when I was on the highway going 70mph (the max speed of the truck, also artificially restricted) there was a tiny side road with a speed limit of 35mph, and the truck on the highway slammed the brakes with warnings on the dash that I was exceeding the speed limit of 35, but I’m on a highway with a speed limit of 75mph.
Stupid technology. Makes things more dangerous than it should be.
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Article specifically says the tech does not affect braking
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I got a loaner last time I had my car worked on that had all that shit on it and all the settings for shit hidden in touch screens. Had to drive 45 minutes home with no AC and the thing freaking out on me every time I had to dodge a pot hole or some shit in the road. When I came back to pick up my car they were like "So are you thinking about trading up now?" No, I'm less likely to do that than ever actually.
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See it regularly here, especially when the overpass is a regular road. Cars slamming on the brakes on the highway at an overpass isn't great.
Also concerned, and honestly expecting, this will be primarily applied to visibly ethnic groups (aka not white guy in a suit)
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@bookcrawler @Retrounlimited
It should be done to all cars as a safety feature like seat-belts. Cars are too heavy and they go too fast. Drivers kill 40,000+ people a year in the USA alone and send another 2,000,000 to the hospital with injuries. All new cars should have a speed restriction device on them and old cars should be retrofitted. A GPS module costs less than $50 and most cars already have an electronic control unit.
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@Retrounlimited @cm0002
"Stupid technology. Makes things more dangerous than it should be"
That would be cars themselves. 70mph is way too fast for a car to travel. It might be a decent speed for a train because trains are on a controlled fixed path where cars and pedestrians can only cross in front of them at controlled crossings. Highways are as controlled as a carnival bumper cars ride. 35mph seems about right for cars on the highway. Drivers also kill a lot of wildlife outside the cities.
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"Instead of using traffic calming to slow cars or designing cities properly so that people don't need to drive in the first place, let's violate people's privacy and property rights to forcibly install a tracking and speed governor device in their car because even when we've already suspended their license it's still somehow unreasonable to actually stop them from driving! Car-dependency and car-supremacy, fuck yeah!"
Everything about this is comprehensively despicable.
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While I agree in principle, this change is a win and I hope more states legalize this method.
We give breathalyzer lockouts to DUI convicted citizens. Why? Because they'll drive anyway. You can pull licenses all you want, but when driving is required to live, the people will drive. And they'll do it even when they're a raging alcoholic.
A speed monitor / limiter is a tool for a judge to use. Judges don't have the power to pull city, state, and federal money and force building better street designs. I don't believe they should have that power as political issues should not be addressed by a single branch of government. That's how we got here after all: cities dictating minimum parking, civil engineers pushing terrible designs and refusing to change them, fire departments mandating minimum lane widths, etc.
However, judges do have the power to remove a person's property and privacy rights. Ergo a good judge will restrict a convicted person's rights in a way that could feasibly prevent societal harm.
Judges can remove a person's right to drive too, as can doctors and other civil servants, but that usually ends in death. Literally.
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We give breathalyzer lockouts to DUI convicted citizens. Why? Because they’ll drive anyway. You can pull licenses all you want, but when driving is required to live, the people will drive. And they’ll do it even when they’re a raging alcoholic.
Frankly, if we're going to be fucking with people's property rights anyway, I think it would actually be better public policy to confiscate the whole car. First of all, it forcibly creates another pedestrian, and therefore increases public support for non-car infrastructure. Second, asserting this right to control parts of people's property and prohibiting them from modifying it without taking it away completely creates this weird "in-between" kind of ownership that leads to creeping expansion of infringement and has bad implications for things like Right to Repair, etc. I mean, you proved my point yourself: (paraphrased) "we already do it for breathalyzer lockouts, so that must mean it's okay." When does it end?
Judges can remove a person’s right to drive too
That has never been a right, except on private land that the driver owns. Driving in public has always been a privilege.
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Absolutely but....
We do need some cars, for sure. And with that roads and rules. When those rules say that they highest speed in the country is, say, 120pkh, then why the hell is even the shitties car able to somewhat easily reach 200 or better cars even up to the high 200s?we don't need cars that can reach those speeds, because nobody is allowed to drive at those speeds, so why the hell can just about all cars reach those speeds?
Just make it forbidden for any car to exceed 130kph to begin with.
Then also indeed design your damned roads correctly
If you do want to drive over 120, go drive on a race tracking cars that are now allowed on the streets
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@cm0002 They should use devices to slow ALL cars. The devices should force all cars to stay under the speed limit and the speed limit should be 30 kilometers per hour.
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Force cars to not be able to go quicker than a brisk walk. Force everyone to either walk or, if they are in a hurry, ride a bike. Your commute just went from a thirty minute drive to a 5 hour bike ride? Sucks to be you. Can't afford a place closer to work? Sucks to be you. Planning on visiting relatives in another state and can't afford air fair and other options, trains or buses, don't go there? Sucks to be you, set aside a week to get there. An elderly relative is flying into the closest airport, with is now a 4 hour drive away, well...better plan accordingly.
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@sinfreefor00days
People did all of those things before cars existed. #CarBrain #MotoNormativity #FuckCars
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Disagree. There are times when an excess of speed is necessary to get into a safe space. Such as crappy drivers of bigger cars or trucks trying to block others. Or not being safe in other ways.
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