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In many rural parts of the country (say, Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona, where towns are quite scarce, roads are flat and straight, and there's nothing to hit in
by dublin 5y ago
In many rural parts of the country (say, Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona, where towns are quite scarce, roads are flat and straight, and there's nothing to hit in between), even grandmotherly drivers regularly exceed 100 MPH just to get there in a reasonable time. I don't want any cars monitoring drivers for conformance to silly laws. The fact that it took us a decade to kill the silly and counterproductive nationally-mandated 55-MPH speed limit should act as proff that the government frequently gets these things wrong. It's important that people have the ability to simply not comply, rather than having their technology force them into it.
If they actually do this, I'm predicting a run on old pre-controlled cars and trucks, and a thriving black market in circumvention technologies!