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just to add to that: what percentage of accidents would be prevented if your car could only go up to 99? I didn't find that in the article. I didn't see the a

just to add to that: what percentage of accidents would be prevented if your car could only go up to 99? I didn't find that in the article. I didn't see the article mention that a speed of 99 would have prevented or lessened that minivan accident either. So we don't know. But we do know that once this tech is mandated, politicians will start demagogueing for lower and lower speeds. Slower speeds wouldn't bother me much because I'm a slow driver, but I could easily see this being turned into disabling cars during lock-downs, snowstorms, curfews, martial law in some countries, owing taxes etc, etc, etc.

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
> But we do know that once this tech is mandated, politicians will start demagogueing for lower and lower speeds. No, we don't. I don't buy this slippery slope argument at all. Right down the road from me is a highway where the speed limit is 85 MPH, so it's not like politicians have been clamoring to lower speed limits just because we have one. This is the same argument that has occurred with gun control (i.e., if we give an inch to any sort of reasonable regulations of guns that it means we'll be letting the government take all of our guns!) that has not been born out by history.