Something wicked this way comes – from my home state of Virginia, which is about to throttle back convicted “speeders” by giving traffic judges the authority to require their vehicles be fitted with speed-limiters. But that’s not really accurate – because every new vehicle already has speed-limiting “technology” – the word always used in cases such as this – embedded in their programming.
It just hasn’t been fully activated yet.
Implying it is only a matter of when it will be fully activated rather than if it will be.
Virginia’s move to empower judges to impose speed limiters on those convicted of “speeding” (defined in this case as driving 100 MPH or faster, which encompasses the driving of many of the enforcers of the speed limit but they are of course exempted) is the brainchild of a nanny lobby that styles itself Families for Safe Streets. Etymologically – as well as psychologically – the styling is of a piece with the Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Patriot Act in that the stylings are designed to quell any questioning a priori. After all, what sort of cretin could question “safe” streets? Or would question the importance of getting “drunks” off the road?
Or be opposed to a “Patriot”act?
“Safety” is thus equated with driving the speed limit – unless, of course, you are an enforcer of the speed limit, in which case it is safe to drive as fast as you like.
But here’s the important thing to bear in mind:
Once the precedent has been set it will be used as the basis for a general imposition. That is, using the already-built-into-new-cars speed limiting “technology” to throttle the “speeding” of drivers who drive less than 100 MPH. Eventually – inevitably – it will serve as the logical basis for electronically throttling “speeding” altogether. Because it follows. Because it is logical. Because if you give the cretins who insist that the streets must be made “safe” by electronically throttling the speed of those who drive 100 MPH an inch they will take a mile.
They always do.
Consider the related history – and example – of the progression against what is styled the effort to curb “drunk” driving, very much desired by “mothers” and so very hard to argue against. It began with the presumption that driving drunk is bad – because drunk drivers tend to wreck. That puts other drivers at risk and so ought to be discouraged by punishing it.
That morphed to the point that “drunk” means having had anything at all to drink. And not even necessarily that – in that everyone, including people who have had nothing alcoholic to drink, are presumed to be “drunk” until they satisfy a law enforcer that they are not “drunk.” This business reached its ne plus ultra when, in the waning days of the Biden Thing’s “administration” – the word is bracketed within air-fingers-quote-marked for the same reason that it would be necessary to so bracket what occurred in the movie, Deliverance a “heavy petting” scene – the hair-plugged Scranton Sniffer decreed that every new vehicle sold must be equipped with “technology” to detect “impaired” driving by 2026. “Impaired” is the new word used to characterize any form of driving that involves not following every traffic law to the letter, especially “speeding” – by equating it with “drunk” driving.
Brilliant, isn’t it?
Bet your bippie the same progression is intended here. Begin by going after the hard-to-defend minority who do drive drunk – or who drive 100-plus MPH – especially in school zones – and then gradually, incrementally, attenuate the definition of “drunk” to the point that it encompasses anyone who drinks (anything) or who drives any faster than whatever the speed limit is.
The mechanism (more finely, the programming) for this is already in place, as already mentioned. Every new vehicle – and most vehicles made since circa 2022 – have a “technology” styled speed limit assistance. It does not “assist” anything. What it does is keep track of your speed – relative to the speed limit – wherever you are driving. It works by comparing the GPS data about the road you’re driving on – including the posted speed limit of the road you’re on – with data about the speed you’re driving, which the car’s computer knows. If you are driving faster than whatever the speed limit is, the system will “assist” you by flashing a warning icon on the dash play to inform you of the fact, as if you didn’t know and oh-my-gosh I’d better slow down.
It is of a piece with the seat belt “reminder” won’t stop harassing you with obnoxiously loud chimes/buzzers until you do “buckle up” – as if you had no idea you’d forgotten to. The idea here is to punish you for not bucking up.
Not to “remind” you to.
And that is how speed limit assistance will be used. To prevent you from “speeding.” It is already being used this way in Europe and it is going to be used here. Else why would every new vehicle be equipped with this “technology”? More finely, why is every new vehicle equipped with this “technology” that few, if any buyers asked for? Note that it isn’t just an option put out there to see whether people are interested enough to pay extra for it. Rather, it is just being embedded in all vehicles – as if in anticipation of a mandate-to come.
So what’s coming online in Virginia is probably just the first of many coming-on-lines in other states – and then nationally.
The good news is that older cars not equipped with this “technology” cannot be mechanically throttled back. The bad news is that the cretins behind this will almost certainly try to close that “loophole” – the term of derision used whenever someone manages to avoid being screwed over by the government – by requiring that all vehicles used on “public” (that is, government) roads must be equipped with this “technology.” And the really sweet thing about that is that older vehicles made before drive-by-wire throttle and computer-controlled everything can’tm as a practical matter, be retrofitted with this “technology.”
They will thus be taken off the road without actually outlawing them. This being the same technique being used right now to take cars with engines off the road – by requiring them to comply with regulations that only battery-powered vehicles can comply with.
Brilliant, again.
But only if you let them get away with it – by thinking it won’t affect you. And by believing that if you give them an inch they won’t take a mile.
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At what point do we say C’mon 4th Turning, Git ‘er done!
Cool nic, worker72a.
On the first point, you’re behind.
On the 2nd, it’s not a gittin’ thing. It’s a process.
I suppose, who manages that process, is the key.
Something wicked this way comes –
So who exactly is pushing all of these control schemes?
Ludwig von Mises argues that ‘sound money’ is an instrument for the protection of civil liberties and a means of limiting government power.
This my friends is why the owners of the privately owned central banks have nefariously given us fiat (Fake) currencies and instituted a massive debt scheme on humanity.
He who prints ‘money’ can buy the world. And Indeed has.
“Give me control over a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws.”
-Mayer Anschel Rothschild
Rothschild is a German-Jewish banking family and the founders of the Rothschild banking dynasty that own and control most of the worlds wealth today. It is thought that the Rothschild’s hold over 90% of the worlds processed Gold in vast underground cellars.
Let that sink in for a moment..
Who’s your Daddy?
Disgusting vile cretins called Rothschild.. and their sick lust for world domination.
That’s who.
100% correct.
It happens to be the same family that funded the formation of the impostor “Israel” in the middle east. mainly so they could be close to their mineral interests, but also with the long-term plan of “radicalizing Islam” to turn it against Christianity. I wonder how many realize the “Saudi Royal Family” is Jewish, lol.
Just imagine if more people were aware of these simple facts..
The tide might finally start to turn.. 😉
letmepickonjews, you are guilty of ‘with bias’.
Stop picking on those dumb useless murdering Jews. All you ever do.
All the Jews know how to do is to be meddlesome and kill anybody vulnerable.
You gotta let it all go ballistic.
Always time to be irreverent and sarcastic.
It is hard to say what the crash is all about.
It’s a funny old ride here on earth.
Mock Bibi the Baby, mock Trump, mock Putin, mock Zelensky/Alinsky, mock them all.
Dumbasses one and all. Not one of them has a leg to stand on.
Fuck’em.
Martin Luther said it all in spades.
A small importer in Florida — not the big, cowardly auto makers — has filed suit against Trump’s auto tariffs, on the obvious ground that they are unconstitutional.
Looking forward to Donnie Fubar’s ludicrous, chest-thumping carney barker getting shut down cold.
MAGA = barefoot, jobless, broke & hungry.
The digital prison continues to be built around us unabated.
I just finished a cross-country road trip in a rented 2024 Jeep Wagoneer, which had all the latest tech gizmos.
We noticed more than once that the actual, posted speed limit (i.e. the “real world” limit) differed from that shown on the on-dash TV screen.
In most cases, the actual posted limit was LOWER than what was shown on-screen.
Which means, if we trusted the “tech”, we’d be liable for a speeding violation.
This technology now enables car companies to rent-seek with thousands of state, county and municipal jurisdictions. The possibilities to further mulct the public are endless!
Puritans, Yankees, Progressives. That’s the lineage. If you are having fun, they will outlaw it. For them, that IS fun.
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -H.L. Menken
It has always been a prurient/puritanical society. Lolita Express is the proof. Hell’s bells, even Elon provides plenty of proof.
Walked into a delicatessen to see what there was to eat in a hurry.
Every kind of sex toy was for sale in the ostensibly delicatessen.
During the GFC back in 2008, John Deere was sunk to 25 USD per share, today, it is at 427 USD. Plenty of room to get back to where it once was.
It is still a great country.
As usual the opposite of justice is imposed on society. This animal was involved in three crashes before this happened:
https://komonews.com/news/local/driver-pleads-guilty-to-high-speed-crash-that-killed-renton-woman-3-children-18-year-old-driver-killed-fatal-deadly-children-woman-multi-vehicle-traffic-safety-driving-road-speeding-memorial-tribute-press-conference-pulse-poll-seattle-king-county-sheriff#
So we get harassed for 40 in a 35 while the un responsible go unpunished until a catastrophic fatal event. Also these aren’t accidents they are deliberate negligence.
And the “drunk” driving. Keep lowering the BAC limit but the chronic serious offenders are still out and about. I’ll repeat an event – neighbors niece killed by a hit and run drunk driver. Three priors and not .08 priors. They caught the POS and still had a .16 BAC at the time. Got 3 1/2 years. I would have voted for a long drop short rope.
And so emerges the Clockwork Orange Barchetta.
Recently, I drove my sister’s new Toyota Corolla that was equipped with this idiotic nanny state tech. I drove 4 mph over the speed limit and a little speed limit sign on the center display flashed an angry red at me. My parents laughed when I said “Shut up car, I’ll drive as fast as I please.”
But in all seriousness, what if you have to get to the emergency room? My son had a febrile seizure and was in and out of consciousness. We did 150 mph getting him to the emergency room almost an hour (at normal speed) away from our house. If my car had one of those governors on it, my son could’ve died. But I guess our betters don’t really care or think about that, do they?
You are correct – they don’t care.
With the coming implementation of driver monitoring, the kill switch, and vehicle safe harbor strategy to safely pilot the car to the side of the road prior to shutdown, they will literally have the ability to stop the car.
Driver monitoring is subject to all sorts of error states that could result in a shutdown.
Can you imagine being distressed about that sort of emergency and having the camera repeatedly warning you that you are not paying sufficient attention to the road?
One of the things the EU is pushing hard is drunk driver detection via camera monitoring. Currently not technically feasible but that hasn’t stopped the push to implement this technology ASAP.
I can only imagine the lawsuits that will result.
It is likely they will simply rule that you should have called 911 or an ambulance. Never mind that in many rural areas there is no ambulance service and that 911 assistance may be hours away.
Yes. I’m a rural first responder and the ambulance is at least 20 minutes out, sometimes a lot longer in bad weather or if they’re already called out to the other side of the county. Our job is to keep them alive and take info so the EMTs can get them moving quickly. Without us a lot of folks would just die waiting.
I’ve never understood the obsession of small minds with “speeding”. What it’s really about is control, showing you that you’re a subject and not a free citizen.
Does anyone actually ‘believe’ any of these people could give two shits about you or the children!
Does anyone remember the covid —-vaxxine—? Well folks,,, They’re still mandating ‘vaxxines’— “for the children”. Everyone knows the shots kill and injure. So, wonder why our new god in DC doesn’t ban them. Even Desantis in the ‘free’ state of Florida talks the talk but refuses to walk the walk.
DeSantis put on his little Jew hat and went to the wall to suck on some Jews.
They care about children, they are a valuable commodity to them. It is the basis of an entire blackmail economy
@Eric – The next time you get a new-ish BMW, try to set cruise control while driving above the posted limit.
The system will not allow, say, 75 in a 70 MPH limit zone. The cruise control number will set at 70, and the vehicle will slow down.
The only way to set cruise control above the limit is to repeatedly hit the ‘+’ button, but you will get the angry red icon.
I was able to find a hack on the Ram forums that allowed me to turn off the annoying seat belt chimes in my 2014 Ram truck. I think they have closed that “loophole” by now.
nope, have 24’s and the hack still works. yay!
Believe it or not, there’s one for Subaru’s too. The ‘safest’ car, haha. Harder, but it works.
These are just back door turn-off’s built into the puters on purpose, so dealers don’t get swamped with pissed off people.
Good to hear!
I would focus on law enforcement issues first.
1679+1258=2937
Trump is jonesin’ for more money.
Might as well use the most descriptive word, bloodbath.
Just like the TSA at the airports to stop the bad guys of Middle Eastern description after 911. Now they let those pass (profiling) and now strip search the elderly, toddlers and every non-threat in between. Damn G.W. & Cheney to hell!
The “bad guys” that perpetrated 9-11 were not only allowed to go back to israel, they were given assistance by the U S government in doing so.
Once back in israel, they bragged about their successful mossad mission here in the U S A.
Chutzpah, indeed
Motorcycles, dude. They don’t call car drivers “cagers” for nothing.
I have a place where I’ve had my bike up to 115 a number of times. I’m smart about it, though — it’s a straight, rural road with nothing but hayfields. The cops are sometimes at the and of it as I come up to the stop sign, taking radar on a perpendicular state highway, LOL.
It’ll go faster but I won’t push it farther unless I rebuild the suspension and have new tires on it. I don’t keep it up in triple digits for very long either.
There’s nothing wrong with speed in the proper time and place. I wouldn’t do 115 lane splitting on the interstate in traffic like some of the morons you see on the internet videos.
New bikes could have the same issue since they are ride by wire, but yea, I may have had one up to 139 on a clear stretch. Could have been the fastest I ever went, and it was probably less than half a minute. Sport bikes are too happy above 100. I know there is a computer delete kit to convert a new Harley to a carb setup. If the terrible day comes where this is widespread, there will be rolling roadblocks everywhere. By chicago, interstate traffic flows between 70-90mph without traffic, but the speed limit is 55 on these roads. It would be terrible.
A brilliant red barchetta from another banished time…
During COVID hysteria, there were people who tried to compare being unvaxxed with drunk driving, which never made any sense as many people who got vaxxed STILL got the dreaded ‘Rona, and there have been studies indicating that the more COVID shots one got, the MORE likely they were to get COVID.
If government & corporate media tries to run a fear porn campaign involving drivers “speeding”, what are the odds that people who buy any narratives around that will try to shame people who refuse to get an automobile that has that “speed limiter” technology? Heck, people who bought the COVID narratives hook, line, and sinker tried to shame people who refused to comply with nonsensical government diktats such as wearing face diapers everywhere AND being guinea pigs for Big Pharma. The fact that thus far NO politician or bureaucrat I know of who’s committed crimes has gone to prison leaves me concerned that some corrupt bureaucrat WILL try to run another fear mongering campaign involving something else.
I would argue that we need real speed limits before holding people electronically to the artificially low ones. On 95 in Virginia the average passing lane speed is about 90 mph, 100 slightly faster than the flow of traffic in rural areas
For this system to work it would need up to date maps, speed limits in the car’s computer and a GPS also. If the antenna is disconnected what would happen then? I hope that they don’t go after old cars, in part because everything I own is old but also because it will be telling the poor people out there that GovCo really does think you are just a peasant and are to be treated as such. And yes I do know that old saying “Hope is not a strategy”.
My Garmin GPS hasn’t been updated in 5 years and I notice that roads around cities now have different speed limits than what my Garmin shows.
Hi Landru,
I’m concerned that government (particularly state governments that have diktats effectively stating that over the next several years, the only new automobiles that can be sold in the state will be EVs), will expand such diktats to ban older vehicles and vehicles that don’t have “speed limiters”.
You guys really need to get up to date on how the technology works.
Mapping and GPS is not necessary to do speed limiting.
The ADAS cameras are capable of reading the sign. The vehicles own speed sensors determine speed.
And you know this? How? Always ready to learn, and appreciate a source.
Automotive engineer. Worked in the field of electronic engine and chassis controls.
Plenty of source materials out there wrt how the technology works. SAE. Read the patents. Industry publications. Even the mainstream magazines cover this stuff (Road & Track, Car & Driver).
3 seconds of internet “research” would get you there. Use Ford Intelligent Speed Assist as an example.
Intelligent Speed Assist is designed to aid your speed control, enabling you to concentrate on the road. First, a front-facing camera automatically detects the current speed limit. If activated, the system adjusts your maximum speed setting to that limit*.
*It remains the responsibility of the driver to ensure speed limits are adhered to at all times.
For further information, please see your owner’s manual or local Ford dealership
https://tinyurl.com/2s49ymwe
The use of the forward facing camera is also referenced in the video Eric embedded within the article!! Sheesh!
Ugg – I apologize I’m in a bit of a mood this morning.
Getting to be a difficult pill to swallow to be challenged on sourcing for readily available technical information.
Yet, the comments here are constantly filled with Jew bashing, transgender nonsense, talk of aliens, faked moon landings, just to name a few topics.
Then when posting about details of a publicly documented technology I get challenged for sources?
Really beginning to question the “community” here.
If only everyone here was as intelligent and well informed as you, this would be such a wonderfully cohesive community! Before I post anything from now on, I’d like to run it by you first and have you edit it for content that you find more pleasing to your more evolved sensibilities.
In my newer vehicle, I see the speed limit sign on the dash. Which hilariously does not work in the sticks out of town much of the time. I noticed that the sensor/camera for that is located right in front of the rear view mirror. So my smart a** has pondered putting a piece of duct tape there just to mess with it. I would say that with such a draconian, Big Brother technology, some computer geek will find a way around it. Until Big Brother decides to brick the vehicle entirely in retaliation. Fun times to be living in, that is for sure.
So, when Jews are directly responsible for something, pointing out that fact is “Jew bashing”?
No doubt if it was some “Muzzie”, that would be just fine to point out, eh?
Exactly….hardly a secret.
Toyota been using this tech for years.
’18+ Camrys display a tiny speed limit sign in the TFT LCD between the gauges and it surrounds red when limit is being exceeded.
It is accurate most of the time, but on occasion, it’ll glitch, and for example show a 35mph sign on the IP when the true speed limit is 65mph.
Exceedingly creepy.
What if some mud happens to get on the camera lens?
Damn mud. Gets all over sensors and license plates, even on mostly clean cars.
lol
As it currently stands, if the camera is blocked the “feature” will disable or will potentially revert to nav system map data but per Landeu’s comment Mapped data can goes out obsolete pretty quickly.
However, per Eric’s point underlying these technologies, it’s a simple software matter to disable the whole vehicle rather than just the “feature”.
The powers that be always have a way to screw us in their back pocket. 🙁
Most fleet vehicles have already implemented this tech, and have had it since the 2010’s. The latest version will actually “punish” the driver by topping out the speed at 55 MPH if the driver spends too much time over the preset limit (and sending an alert to the supervisor).
I know a guy who put a small jammer into his company’s service truck to throw off the GPS.
Speed limiting goes back prior 2010.
Has been easily accomplished since ECU’s supporting fuel injection became the norm in the 90s.
Early limiting was done by controlling spark and ignition advance.
Got a whole lot easier and accurate when throttle by wire became common 2003-2004 era.
Mechanical speed limiting via mechanical & centrifugal governors has been around going back to the steam engine era.
Dig into ‘Families for Safe Streets,’ and you likely will find an astroturf group backed by government or foundation grants, and with some ambitious political spouse behind it.
Sad to see Virginia morph into an ersatz New Jersey, marooned just below the Mason Dixon line. As Paul Revere might have warned y’all, ‘The yankees are coming!’
Speaking of yankees and their penchant for assaulting people they disapprove of for their moral improvement, savor this headline from the New York Slimes:
U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burn Through Munitions With Limited Success
In just three weeks, the Pentagram has used $200 million worth of munitions in Operation Rough Rider against the Houthi militia, officials said.
‘Rough Rider’ of course is a reference to Teddy Roosevelt, the yankee prick who got the US into the permawar biz after a thirty-year respite following Ape Lincoln’s gratuitous bloodletting.
But Orange War Daddy, he of the painful bone spurs, is no Teddy Roosevelt. He’s just a fat, traitorous blowhard, wrecking the economy as he runs out of ammo fighting apartheid Israel’s wars on the other side of the world.
How do you spell relief? S-E-C-E-D-E.
Agreed that all of those safety “movements” have been PR astroturf events.
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”
-Edward Bernays
I own that book (Propaganda). Everyone should read it.
Everybody should read it. Here it is in pdf form. And this is the shit they were aware of 100 years ago. Imagine the knowledge, information and techniques the propagandists of 2025 have.
https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Bernays_Propaganda_in_english_.pdf
Here’s what most don’t know…this is how creepy the world is.
Edward Bernays is, himself, a descendant of Sigmund Freud…the Jewish “psychoanalyst” obsessed with incest.
Bernays is his nephew. But wait, the family tree doesn’t stop there.
Marc BERNAYS Randolph, the once again Jewish co-founder of Netflix, is a direct descendant of both of them. If there was ever any question of the intent and purpose of Netflix, that should answer it.
You literally can’t make this stuff up.
Idk Jim, I remember there was a lot of talk about Texas seriously thinking about seceding just before they got slammed with that insane snowstorm seemingly outta nowhere in early 2022, and those people didn’t get relief they got to burn household furniture and die of carbon monoxide exposure in their vehicles while they waited on the government to get permission from the government to draw enough power for the peasants to survive
I suspect threats of seceding can lead to life-threatening cloudseeding and swiftly weaponized weather
And whenever the subject comes up, the media reports that Texas “isn’t allowed to secede”, as though we’re supposed to believe it’s the sort of thing that requires explicit permission
But yes secession is ultimately necessary for freedom, straight on all the way down to the individual
“Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?” – Murray Rothbard
Texas never signed the “no secession” document that the “several states” were forced to sign under duress in order to be admitted to the “union”.
The “no secession” document promised the removal of “occupation governments” from the former “states in rebellion”.
As to Texas and the power grid, it has its own grid separate from both the eastern and western electrical power grids.