One of the perks that comes with doing what I do – which among other things is to test drive new cars each week – is that I become aware of the newest “features” before the general awareness picks up on it. By the time that happens, the deal – so to speak – is usually done. Meaning whatever the “feature” is, it’s become a kind of fait accompli that people generally just accept.
ASS is an example. No one asked for ASS (automatic start-stop) but all of a sudden – so it seemed – every new vehicle had this “feature.” It is important – because it matters – to point out that ASS was never offered as an option, so that people could decide whether they wanted their vehicle’s engine to shut down automatically every time the vehicle wasn’t actually moving. It was just embedded – part of the package. Never mind the fact that ASS is almost universally detested.
This brings us to the latest “feature” which you have probably not encountered yet – unless you have recently bought a new vehicle. You may not see it at first, because unlike ASS this system is harder to see. But it’s watching you, nevertheless.
Climb behind the wheel of almost any new car and look closely at the steering column. You will see a small housing that looks like it might be a secondary warning lamp cluster of some sort. If you look at it with a camera, you will see it is something else. Your eye can’t see the infrared cameras in that housing that are watching your eyes – ostensibly for signs of distraction; i.e., that you might not be looking straight ahead or are “drowsy.”
If the all-seeing eyes think you might be “drowsy” – or “distracted” – you will be hectored to “sit up straight” and “keep eyes on the road” or to “consider taking a break.”
You can probably see where this is going.
Especially now that’s it’s getting closer. Next year, the federal requirement passed back in 2012 goes into effect that requires all new cars be fitted with “advanced impaired driving prevention technology” that effectively mandates the use of infrared cameras that “track your eyes, pupil dilation, and driving behavior.” This is what I have been seeing in many of the new cars I test drive for the past couple of years, well in advance of the requirement coming online. In anticipation of the requirement is more precise. Probably the vehicle manufacturers recognized that if this “technology” appeared all at once, people would balk. They might not buy.
But introduce it slowly, incrementally – and there’s less fuss. It seems like not such a big deal because it’s only some cars that have it and all it does is pester you a little bit – and new cars have been doing that for decades already. What’s a little more pestering? Most people don’t like it, but they’ll accept it. Just look at how most have accepted the “safety” rigmarole at the airport.
It’s been normalized.
That’s what’s happening with the in-car monitoring, too. Most new cars have had cameras (and microphones) built into them for the past decade already. People have gotten used to the idea that the inside of their car may no longer be the private place it used to be. Most are aware that their car is transmitting “data” about them to various parties. That if they connect their phone to the car, what’s on their phone is no longer private.
They shrug, most of them.
It’s just the way it is. Indeed. It is the way it is, though, because people shrug and accept the way it is. 
So, in about seven months from now, all new cars will have these cameras watching you as you drive – and the certainty is that they will inevitably do more than just watch you. I have already seen this for myself.
A few months ago, I was test driving a new vehicle with the eye-monitoring system as well as a system that registers whether your hands are on the wheel, via pressure sensors in the wheel. I was driving home on a stretch of rural road where I am often the only car on the road. I have long legs and can steer with my knees impressively well. (I realize right now some “concerned” types are very “concerned”). I did this on purpose to see what the car would do. First came the usual pesterings. Then came something else. The car began to slow – and would have stopped, had I not overridden the system by mashing the gas.
And that can be overridden by “technology,” too.
I harp on this a lot because it’s critical that people understand. Your car – if it is one made within that past decade – already has drive-by-wire-throttle control, which means the computer controls the throttle. Not you, via a cable – as in pre “technology” cars. A signal from the computer to prevent the engine from more than idling is all it takes to idle the car.
Your transmission – if it’s automatic – is also electronically controlled. You do not put it in Drive. The computer does. And it can put it back in Park anytime it so decides. Almost every new vehicle also has electric power steering, too. And the electric motors are electronically controlled. The computer can order it to steer where you don’t want to go. As for example off onto the shoulder, where the car will “brick” if it decides you are “impaired.”
So now you see.
And do not think this will only happen if you steer with your knees. I have been pestered by a number of other cars for maintaining situational awareness – i.e., because I look to my left and right and scan my rearview mirror constantly – as opposed to blinkered horse-like staring straight ahead at all times, which is what the “technology” wants.
To put it bluntly – that is, honestly – what is wanted is total control over your driving. Which will, of course, render driving insufferable to anyone not already a drone.
Also, all of these supposed signs of “impaired” driving will almost certainly be transmitted to the helpful and caring people who work at the DMV and the insurance mafia, who want to reward you for being a “safe” driver . . .
Smash the machines.
At the very least, don’t buy one. Tell them why, too. Mass refusal will stop this.
If enough of us refuse it, that is.
. . .
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Just curious. What happens when the lenses are taped over? What happens when all of the lenses in a car are taped over? Does the vehicle brick itself or is there an audible warning which will not shut off?
I have thought about doing this, Doug. For the camera sits in front of the rear view mirror. Where the rear view camera is concerned, I always laugh my arse off, as during the long Winter months, it is not uncommon for the camera to have dirt and snow. If there is a good amount of snow on the ground, hell, the entire back bumper, including the camera, will be covered when driving from “Point A” to “Point B”. I get the nanny (no sound, thankfully) warning that the rear view camera is obstructed. But, no bricking of the car. Not yet, anyway….
Hi Doug,
Not yet. What happens is you get a pop-up that warns you the “safety” system is offline. I am certain they will brick the car in the future when the system is offline. The logic is inexorable.
Good to know Eric. If I EVER have to rent a vehicle, I will make certain I have a roll of Painter’s Tape with me.
They are going all in with the Palantir control grid matrix.
Local data center is huge, one of the biggest buildings I ever saw.
You’ll own nothing but bug chitin stew.
Don’t venture too far away from the 15m gulag in your Zil Trabant.
It noticed your facial features and won’t start for your safety comrade.
An execution drone will be dispatched, no shirking against the collective.
This short link came up early this morning, Eric, via “X”. Which apparently came from Tik Tok, a site I do not visit, nor frequent. A prelude to the future with regards to AI computers running vehicles and monitoring the serfs…. https://x.com/girlpatriot1974/status/2049901659413975419?s=
Just came across this one!
https://x.com/girlpatriot1974/status/2049901659413975419?s=
Enough of madd!!
Repeal this!
A guy named Sherwood from Royalty Auto has popped up on my fb feed. Interesting stuff about auto repairs/maintenance. He did a video about a car with an electrical problem. Bottom line was, the Insurance Mafia’s plug-in, to “give you lower insurance costs” was the problem. The draw was enough to kill the battery in a few days.
Lots of other stuff from him here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbcbQxSJiu0KYMPoIq88aRA
If it saves just one life…
The Devouring Mother is throttling freedom and civilization. Competent men do not fight back because men don’t want/are unable to fight women. Every space – medicine, law, education, science, etc. – is becoming dominated by female ‘concerns,’ and men simply withdraw in response.
The future is feminist-AI running everything.
Hard times make strong men
Strong men make good times
Good times makes strong women
Strong women make hard times
The eyes are on you — except if you are Israel blockading Gaza. Another aid flotilla is being intercepted 800 miles from Israel while Trump romps with the King of England
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/breaking-organisers-of-a-gaza-bound-aid-mission-say-their-vessels-are-being-inte/35760316060226389/
Only people covering it are the Arab and Israeli press. Israel can lay siege to Gaza since 1967; Palestine has no right to exist. Palestine has no right to defend itself. Palestinians must be dependent on Israel for their food, shelter and medicine. Iran can’t control the Straits of Hormuz, but Israel can control who and what comes and goes into Gaza and the West Bank.
YNET. 4.29.26 “‘Change your course’: IDF intercepts Gaza flotilla far from Israel
Officials say navy moved to enforce Gaza maritime blockade against Global Sumud Flotilla, a 100-vessel convoy carrying about 1,000 activists, hundreds of miles from Israel’s coast. The IDF began taking control late Wednesday of the Global Sumud Flotilla’s Spring 2026 Mission, which was west of Crete and sailing toward the Gaza Strip, though it had been expected to arrive only next week. Flotilla activists claimed their boats were attacked by Israel “with semiautomatic weapons.” An Israeli official said Israel was enforcing the naval blockade. “This is a decision by the political echelon,” the official said. The Foreign Ministry mocked the flotilla, saying the “medical aid” found on board consisted of “condoms and drugs.”…Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also cut short his testimony Wednesday in his ongoing corruption trial, saying he had to attend a meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv. It later emerged that the meeting concerned the flotilla. The flotilla, called the “Global Sumud Flotilla” by its organizers, is believed to include about 100 vessels carrying some 1,000 activists from several countries. Most of the boats are in the area of Crete, about 1,000 kilometers, or 620 miles, from Gaza’s coast. As in previous flotillas, organizers say their goal is to break the naval blockade of Gaza, but not only that. In a statement issued earlier, the flotilla’s organizers said it was part of “a broad global movement at sea and on land” working to dismantle systems that enable “apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide.”
Like others, I simply live by my principles and don’t buy them. When a sibling buys a new car and tells me the price I choke, knowing that for the same money I could buy 15-20 used cars which don’t steal agency, dignity and privacy. I grok that the price is worth it to them for the feature of fitting in and looking like a “proper kind of adult” on the road.
A self-driving car is returning to your youth when mother drove you where you needed to go.
Driving with the all seeing eye is returning to driver’s ed. It calls to my mind scenes from nearly forgotten films where characters regress to adolescence, then the embryonic state, then just a puddle of slime.
I’ll repeat here that the corn gas is going to get us all there, even the recalcitrant. I see it as the Fabian Cash for Clunkers. You keep a little more cash in your pocket while the corn gas eats your engine.
On April Fool’s day this year, we’re raising the bar to 15% corn. I’m not sure if they’ll give a proper heads-up at all the pumps, so I thought I would let the readers here know. I am blessed to live near a station with ethanol-free, and I do not complain while paying $5/gallon. I know of people who pay $25-30 for the same thing in a fancy can at Tractor Supply. I SERIOUSLY know people who pay top dollar for new cars and then hunt for the cheapest gas price. They are, to my thinking, completely regarded.
Just realized that my April 1st warning is off by a month. Well, now you know.
Are you saying there’s people paying $25 per gallon of ethanol-free gasoline? That’s pretty dumb. You can get 100LL for $6.25 at my local FBO if you self serve, $7.50 if they bring the truck to you. You wouldn’t want to run avgas in your car but it could work in an engine without fuel injection or a cat (it’s not completely lead-free).
I’m saying that. Any hardware store carries it nowadays. People buy it.
I’ve been pissed off since the seat belt warning was introduced.
haha – i feel you !
Thankfully my old car now is so old it’s stopped working and no longer nags me!
So, I guess if you were getting head from your passenger whilst underway, it would trigger the “distracted driving” sensor? No doubt this possibility will require a vertical barrier on the passenger side of the center console, ITLR. It would give new meaning to the phrase “mouth guard”.
Take drive on the wild side? Not if GovCo has anything to say about it.
That’s been damn difficult for a long time. I always liked my big old bench seat Buicks for that. She’s gonna get a cramp or worse in buckets and console. Plus she’d have to take off her “safety” belt…
Don’t worry you can drill a glory hole.
91 Silverado, bench seat and tilt wheel, FTW. Or so I understand (cough cough).
Ahh the great American pastime – rolling huff on the hang down.
My buddy and his wife, 73 Ford F150. No one the wiser as back in the 70s most still drove cars, well below the sightline into his truck. Till a school bus rolled up alongside.
Lots of kids yelling & thumbs up. His blessed wife stayed on task, what a trooper!
LOL.
Never done the deed in my ’89 F150, but did manage to “stretch out” with a *very* willing partner in my ’81.
Bench seats forever. 🙂
Bench and Boinkin’ both start with ‘B’ !!
Bench and boinkin’ bodacious broads!
Fait accompli. Great! Now use bête noire. And schadenfreude. Also Le mauvais goût mène au crime.
I don’t raise a fuss or smash any machines (yet). I just live according to principle by not flying or buying/driving new cars.
Although, it has ran through my mind to smash those damn flock safety cams. If they were around back in my youth, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
I abhor being treated like a child, or worse, livestock, by the lesser amongst us.
There’s 3g of gold in each one of those flock cameras.
There does seem to be an unusually high level of stink over this on Xcrement. But 57 supposed Republicans voted with the Commies to maintain the mandate. Not coincidentally most of whom are endorsed by the Emperor of Orange.
I am halfway expecting the mandate to get overturned but I would be willing to wager the automakers will announce they cars won’t have it, but it’s too late in the production cycle to rip it all out by the roots so they might just disable it, but what can disabled can just easily be enabled.
This crap needs to be ripped out by its roots and We The People can accomplish this as long as we hold to “not just NO but F*** NO, we won’t buy anything with this disabled or not.”
The problem I see is We The People are infected with too many sheep. 85% took the bioweapon death shot because the government told them to. This does make me hopeful the We The Sheeple have the fortitude to say no. But hopefully the 15% who resisted the jab plus the survivors who have since figured it out will be enough.
20-25% sales hit could introduce enough financial hardship the get the automakers lobbyists to grease enough CONgressional palms to eliminate any idea of this hoing forward. But the ’27 models will be forever tainted. The stuff isn’t going away from that model year and Americans need to avoid those like the plague.
As for Fords contributions to the technology. The whole company needs to be shuttered forever. They deserve to be hit so completely that no government bailout will be enough to save them.
If I won the lottery for millions today, not a single vehicle I would buy would be newer than 2010. I will never forget the feeling I got the first time I saw a Ferrari 308 in real life in 1980. I was ten in Raleigh, NC. Seeing one now still produces that same feeling. Seeing a 360 or newer does nothing for me. My most desired car was an M3 all the way until 2006. If someone gave me a brand new M3 today, I’d trade it for 2010. Any new car someone gave me today would be taken straight to Carmax and traded for something 2010 or older with low mileage. It is crazy that there is literally no way I can like the next car I have to buy. I somehow got lucky with my current one (2022 mustang), in that I actually like the design and am cool with the 300 hp, 4-cylinder combo due to gas prices. But I know that even if I came into the cash to buy what I want, they’re still attacking by putting parts manufacturers out of business/discontinuing parts, by emissions requirements and by manufacturers refusing to service or repair older cars. I loved cars, but they have been ruined. Besides, now Paul Craig Roberts is reporting the same thing that LionessofJudah said about Bessent getting ready to announce that everyone must get a new electronic passport with a facial scan upload to continue to access their bank accounts. They have now pulled down the curtain and revealed that brick wall Frank Zappa spoke of. Must now let go of or re-think all things I thought were cool. It was all apparently leading here
If I had to buy a 2026 vehicle, it would be the GMC Savannah or Chevy Express vans.
This guy knows what’s up! Still has a cable that shifts the transmission. I think its our only vehicle without a switch that does it now. Hasn’t changed in decades!
You all seem to be male commenters here. The women I know do not mind this stuff. They love safety – the more the better. They have their spouse on speed dial and he better pick up every time. They love having info posted on Facebook about their neighborhood goings on. Why would you mind having cameras everywhere.
Hi RS,
I’m glad you’re not one of them!
If I were a young guy today, I think I’d be inclined to just go my own way – and skip dating altogether. Sex is fine, but it’s not worth the cost.
I wonder what the stats show for foreign mailorder brides today vs 10 years ago. From what I can see, the current crop of marriage age females in this USA are complete liabilities.
Many are doing just that, Eric.
They prefer ‘OnlyFans’ to real, live partners.
Hence the dot gov “concern” about declining population growth, which “needs to be overcome” by importing millions of illegals.
Anyway, look at the bright side.
It’s for our own good! /s
Saint Sparkules: “Just hire it done.”
That’s because women seek safety and security above and beyond everything else, and they’ll sacrifice anything to get that safety and security-even if it means giving up freedom.
It’s that old yin/yang thing. We balance each other out, as nature intends. Problems arise when we view men/women as equal or the same and blur lines that evolution has crafted over millennia.
Not all women. I hate blanket statements such as the one you just made. You do not count the constant programming and social pressure that encourages such things. My dad was more “safety and security above and beyond everything else” than I was or ever will be.
I have been an “outsider” practically my whole life so I have been able to see how people are manipulated to conformity including the “he-man women haters club” so currently popular in some corners of right who blame everyone but white men for the current problems. It’s self defeating and will never lead to things actually getting fixed. Social media is a cancer regardless of sex. You only need to look at the Orange Douche’s “TruthSocial” posts to understand that.
Metal –
I am certainly not part of that club, but I sensed a growing lesbian culture sprouting in the 1980s. I think that is at the root of what’s going on today.
It used to really bug me as I would walk up to some chick in a regular nightclub and she would say “I’m with her” followed by an exchange of spit. Fuck.
I hate that bullshit.
Fortunately, it got better in the late 90’s as my confidence started getting stronger. It didn’t hurt that some chicks like that. It was also better because Bill Clinton normalized getting illicit BJ’s and the like. Girls started flocking to see what the excitement was about. Good times.
That said, I would tell my younger self to travel to the far east, Mexico or even Africa find something over there. Maybe try the massage parlors. Getting up in years, the massage parlor idea is about the best you can do.
I wasted a bunch of time trying to chase this and that and coming up dry.
I wish I would have gotten married at a very young age. The probability of sticking with the same girl is much higher if she hasn’t been around the block.
In any case, I’m getting too old for this and am blessed to have someone now.
Wow, “but I sensed a growing lesbian culture sprouting in the 1980s”
And, “I would walk up to some chick in a regular nightclub and she would say “I’m with her””
I NEVER encountered that. Not in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, or Texas. Not even in San Diego or T.J.. But, I imagine it was out there.
Super crazy. I wonder sometimes, was it the vaxx at the time? The fluoride in the water? Or, just dumb stupidity/being played as a puppet?
Seems so.
Imagine, they swam upstream, against motherhood. Insane.
Will you marry me?
Is this the first EPAutos proposal?
Only, out loud. I’m sure.
Duly noted, MQ. But the exception does not disprove the rule. Yes, there are women like you and yes, there are risk-averse men, but generally speaking, men are either pack animals or lone wolves, while women are herd animals who seek safety in numbers.
You see this in the “mommy politics” of Hillary, Spanberger, Hochul, Klobuchar, etc. They’re all about cock-blocking men in the name of “safety.”
Orwell understood this when he wrote 1984:
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
Yes but there are plenty of men doing the same thing. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is spouting the “mommy rhetoric” as any of the women you mentioned. There is an argument to be made that women have been CONDITIONED to be more busybody-like than men but I find all of the male crowing around how independent-thinking and unemotional they are that fills internet forums to be BULLSHIT. Just look at the Orange Douche and his minions. Just because they express said emotions differently does not make them any less bad.
MQ,
While there are exceptions to the rule, such as yourself, the general tendency for women is to be the more risk averse of the two sexes.
It’s not hate, it’s avoidance for financial and mental stability.
“You’re afraid of strong women!” Oh, OK. Well, my mom born in 1914 was a ‘strong woman’ but she wasn’t a raving bi*** either.
Modern interpretation seems to conflate ‘strong’ with ‘obnoxious bi***’. Pro tip, guys don’t dig obnoxious.
Sorry the worst case of lack of “financial and mental stability” that I know personally is a middle aged white male who thinks he is the just the greatest but is in fact an overgrown child with narcissist and hoarding issues.
And tip for you, smart women do not dig male crowing how they are the mature and rational sex while thinking the accomplishments of others apply to to them just because of their sex.
White men certainly bear some of the responsibility. We allowed the useless garbage elite to import 50 million scrubs without firing a shot, we own that. As for women’s part in it, that goes back to moms. Seems many younger ones these days suck. Which leads to the next generation of women sucking as well.
I marvel at my wife of 25 years. She keeps a spotless house, always keeps our clothes clean, balances our books, even still throws me some sex from time to time, all without complaint. Has even become closer to my kids and grandkids than their own biological egg donor is. It makes me feel like I won life’s lottery.
I do most of the cooking, and outdoor maintenance. Did everything for myself for years before I met her, so I’m not helpless. Yet I realize my life would suck without her. Sometimes I like to watch her make our bed. She does it so meticulously and effortlessly, almost as if there’s a level of enjoyment to it. I know all these things were passed down to her by her mom. I tell any young guy that will listen, if you’re thinking about a life with a woman, take a good hard look at her mom. Cause in the end, thats pretty close to what you end up with.
RS, do not chop off your nose to spite your face. I know of many women in my neck of the woods, who are NOT of the “safety” mindset and BS. Sadly, though, I DO know, of such who are willing to destroy everything around them to be “safe”…..and especially if said liberal woman has children. The women here in this group (In My Own Opinion) are NOT the type who scream for safety over liberty.
Have rented a few cars in the recent past with this ‘tech.’ It’s creepy as hell. Makes no allowance for skill level. if it is so smart as the owners claim why cant it vary the level of control based on driving skill/patterns. I am perfectly capable of keeping my vehicle between the lines while at the same time glancing left or right to admire some of the natural beauty, or whatever. I really don’t appreciate being shocked by the steering wheel becoming janky because I moved my eyes off the center line. Fuck these people and their dystopian fever dream. I’m going backwards unless they come up with an affordable, autonomous flying car. Every new “feature” they come up with always seems to be heads they win, tails we lose. Finding it hard in my personal life to have any compassion or empathy for those who still don’t see this.
It came from the uber arrogant Silicon Valley world. You will accept the EULA or the software you bought won’t work. If you opened it before seeing the EULA you can’t return it. You will accept the features they put in it including dancing, singing paper clips and autocorrect which mangles every one of your missives. And service will not be provided, first sending it across the world to non English speaking script readers (after a call tree) then to an AI.
But people are so literally enthralled by tech that they continue to pay for the crap. Even when there are viable, legit alternatives like Linux and various open office packages.
I think the ones mainly still enthralled by it are the very old, who don’t even drive their cars that much, and the under 30s that cant afford it. My kids tell me more people in their demo are looking at/buying used cars. Still in the late 90s-2010 era, but I suspect that may change as the depravity of silicon valleys control grid agenda becomes more widely known.
Apparently you no longer even have to be in a car: I saw these two links in another blog:
” AI Software Tells Cops to Arrest the Wrong Guy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPUBXN2Fd_E
Apparently they got cameras all over in every state: “Cops Use AI to Jail Innocent Grandmother for 6 MONTHS” (lives in TN; arrested and sent to jail due to AI match in Fargo ND)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ifXObNvTaA
I’ve been witnessing many more oncoming cars crossing over the center line. What used to be very rare is now a regular occurrence on every trip. My first thought was it’s people on their phones. Probably. But now I am wondering if it’s people using their ‘autonomous’ driving systems?
The reason I am wondering is because my ’24 grand cherokee supposedly has a system they call “advanced, Level 2+ semi-autonomous driving through available “Hands-Free Active Driving Assist”. I’ve tried it a few times and it crosses the left or right lines often, so I don’t use it. Very dangerous.
“crossing over the center line”
I’m seeing this everyday on my motorcycle. I ride the shoulder at every passing car, ready to hit the grass. It’s the reason I ride small lightweight bikes today.
No more lead-sleds for us.
Yes, that and constant bright lights on. Then people in older cars also having them on to counter the newer cars.
Despite the US population having grown by a third or so, annual new vehicle sales are about the same now as they were forty years ago, in 1986. Fleet demand — corporate, rentals, government — continues as always. But individual discretionary purchases of new cars clearly have dropped off, on a per capita basis.
Because of gratuitous, intrusive technology, new vehicles have gone from objects of desire in 1986 to annoying nannies in 2026. Auto makers allied with Big Gov, and completely lost sight of satisfying their customers.
High prices for more desirable older cars and pickups show that an active market exists for pre-telematics, pre-monitoring, pre-douchescreen vehicles. I will never buy a new car, because I don’t want it.
Auto makers ought to wake up to the fact that they’ve alienated their customers — people who used to excitedly read ‘car buff’ magazines to learn about new models and new tech. Instead they will go bankrupt in the next recession, as we laugh and celebrate their demise. 🙂
The auto maker is the enemy.
Central bankers are the enemy.. they control the fedgov and auto corporations.
Endless counterfeit currency.. yours, mine -everyone’s real wealth is paying for all of it.
To them we are certainly not customers.. we are consumers (useless eaters).
This is Rothschild’s New World Order of Satan.
The orange clown everyone still seems to fixate on is openly evil, and should normally make a decent person puke a little when referenced. But alas.. it seems our population is also infected with evil.. to continue to tolerate yet except such wickedness.
Sick stuff.
You thought the various “technologies” that newer vehicles now have were bad? Wait til you see the patent application that Ford filed….
https://rumble.com/v794w50-here-are-all-the-terrifying-ways-your-car-is-monitoring-you.html?e9s=src_v1_cmd%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
Eric: “At the very least, don’t buy one. ”
No need to worry about me buying a new surveillance car as I hate the new cars for everything from styling, nannying and the cardinal sin of blind spots. My old cars have a lot less blind spots and as long as I can get parts the longer I’ll drive them.
At this point I’d rather drive a Golden Hawk or Gremlin than any of the new cars.
Amen, Landru!
PS: Back in the ’90s, I knew a guy who owned a Golden Hawk…
I remember a green gremlin with custom LVMH interior (iirc), all blinged out, on bring a trailer a few years back. Low miles, seemed to be well cared for, reasonably inexpensive. Wanted to purchase it but the COO put her foot down, in fact she stomped both her tiny feet in a hard no tantrum. Kind o wish I had that car now.
Norm, I owned a black 1972 Gremlin X -V8 3speed on the floor
It was a wonderful car and a bad-ass ride. Would buy it back in a heartbeat.
Hi AMC Guy,
Having my 455 four speed Trans-Am in the garage is key to maintaining my sanity. I drive it as often as I can afford to. It beats hell out of high blood pressure meds!
Right on! I think I’ll go home at lunch, grab a quick bite, and get my Firebird and drive it back to the office. Weather is perfect.
That does sound pretty bad assed, AMC Guy.
I feel you Eric, this was my ‘Dodge’ Trans Am
https://ibb.co/FSQZrj8
With my wife sitting on the hood. 😉
The only one I remember belonged to a high school girlfriend. A purple Gremlin with the 258 six, which made for an evil handling grossly under steering beast which gave me a brown stain when trying to corner on a gravel road.
Dude, just remind them “You’re a guest in a man’s world!” Settles ‘em right down.
Personally I am getting fucking sick of being constantly monitored — EVERYWHERE. In new cars, with Flock and ALPERs, with REAL ID, with pre-employment drug tests, showing ID at the doctor’s office and to buy beer, the TSA (although I have not flown commercial in over 10 years), armed cops and magnetometers at government buildings, requesting government permission to buy a gun and ammo, credit card purchase monitoring, etc. etc.
Plus having to register and create a password and account for EVERYTHING, and other people constantly monitoring every word you say lest you “offend” somebody by saying something “racist” or “sexist” or otherwise “offensive.” And the Newspeak jargon they force upon you — i.e. the “homeless” are “unhoused persons,” illegal aliens are “undocumented migrants,” etc.
I am really fucking sick of this country. It is not a free country at all unless you regard unlimited porn and anal sex and sportsball as “freedom.” I do not “support” it, I am no longer “patriotic” towards it or the aggressive actions taken by its military on behalf of Israel. I do not think the cops are “heroes” or are “protecting” me, they are government agents trying to find an excuse to screw me.
I would like to be left alone, I would like to be able to just have my own little piece of the rock out in the country and be able to make enough money to pursue a few interests and interact with very few people — but people with similar attitudes and demographic characteristics.
That’s what this country USED to be. It’s not any more. It’s not free, it’s overcrowded, and the government is an Orwellian, bloated, indebted Leviathan.
Hi X. My Garmin GPS goes off all the time regarding cameras. Most people fail to realize how much they are monitored. In the UK where they have tons of cameras they never seem to stop or lower the crime rate but I suspect they can and will be used to quell dissent.
In a similar vein…
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/04/28/kill-switch-of-freedom/
Morning, X!
What you’ve written really resonated with me. Especially:
“I would like to be left alone, I would like to be able to just have my own little piece of the rock out in the country and be able to make enough money to pursue a few interests and interact with very few people — but people with similar attitudes and demographic characteristics.”
You know, I’m not trying to sound arrogant because I’m not perfect, but 1) I am financially solvent 2) have a normal BMI 3) do not watch porn, diddle kids, or take drugs 4) shoot guns with regularity and do so safely 5) fix my own shit 6) am not insane 7) am a natural born citizen 8) have never committed a terrorist act and 9) have never stolen so much as a penny.
I think I’m pretty capable of being left the fuck alone and not constantly monitored and treated as if I am a criminal or a terrorist or a mental case or a child or a retard or an incompetent or a drug addict. That really pisses me off.
Same here, X –
I’m a very live-and-let-live guy; I do my best to be civil to others. I pay my bills and mind my own business. The only “crimes” I commit are of the statutory offense sort, such as “speeding.” I just want be left in peace and am committed to leaving others in peace. But that’s not enough to be left in peace, as you say.
You sound like a great candidate for moving to a less bad country. The surveillance culture here is not going to change, well, only for the worse.
Fun to discuss, and harp on, but only power can stop power. Maybe try looking at a couple small, peaceful and interesting places in the southern hemisphere to move to. Paraguay and Uruguay come to mind. Vietnam and Thailand seem to be quite popular. And cheap to live in.
Where is this mythical country?
The one Whitney Webb moved to (Chile) that proudly claims that Santiago as the ‘smartest city’ in South America and is attempting to lead the region in being a model 15 Minute City?
Or where Glenn Greenwald moved (Brazil) where he was the victim of a home invasion robbery that oddly the only thing stolen was a laptop full of his research? Privacy? That’s a funny one.
Maybe Switzerland, who eliminated the anonymity options for individuals on bank accounts in 1992. They have strict immigration rules that seem mostly to disfavor caucasians unless you’re top 0.1% wealthy.
The Pacific rim like Indonesia? Their constitution says you have freedom of speech only with restrictions for morality, religious values, security, public order, the rights and freedoms of others?
Australia with it’s strict gun laws? Dubai?
Where do you move where you will be left alone to live in peace?
America is at the pointy end of all this globalism because they know the spirit of liberty is still a thing here (and there’s hundred of millions of guns) and if they succeed in burying that the world will follow the descent in dystopian hell. Leaving here may be a temporary respite but if you plan to live more than a few more years you better be ready to push back where ever you go, it will be following you.
The best outcome is widespread collapse that shunts it all, in which case you better live in place you feel comfortable being the last place you’ll ever see when it could be years or decades before system of international commerce and travel are resurrected for plebs.
Too true anon,
You can run but you can’t hide, the dystopia is spreading everywhere
A real pisser is they hassle us, the tax paying no threat to anyone folks, but these POS rack up crime after crime and now someone’s dead “ Court records show Romanoff had 47 prior arrests and 29 convictions “
https://komonews.com/news/local/woman-sentenced-for-killing-bystander-in-2024-thurston-county-police-chase-nicole-romanoff-35-years-old-olympia-2024-chase-crash-maximux-penalty-identity-theft-vehicular-assault?spot_im_redirect_source=pitc
It is because you (and so many here) want to be left alone, is the very reason why they are not backing down on pushing the safety crap in vehicle. The online surveillance. The “no expectation of privacy in public” that now extends to your appliances, light bulbs, and anything they can conjure up, all for safety none of us asked for. In this day and age wanting privacy means there is something seriously wrong with you. You want to be safe, right? Problem is, who is going to keep one “safe” from the very people whose ultimate goal is to bankrupt, oppress, and ultimately kill us, wrapped up in the name of “safety” that is anything but.
Heh. I remember when they were bums, vagrants, and wetbacks. You know, free speech by free people.
But yes, nice rant.
Damned straight!
I heard it on the X as ZZ Top once sang!
These Flock cameras that seem to be EVERYWHERE in the country aren’t infallible. There’s someone who was consistently pulled over by law enforcement due to a Flock camera’s inability to distinguish between the letter “O” and the number zero “0” on license plates….
https://rumble.com/v794vw6-flock-cameras-are-turning-the-u.s.-into-a-mass-surveillance-superstate.html?e9s=src_v1_cmd%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
The drive (no pun intended) to “keep us safe” has gone from obnoxious to sheer lunacy. I have to wonder… Many are saying they will not buy a new vehicle due to this crap they are forcing on us. That no one asked for. I cannot help but wonder if-in response to people pushing back-they make any vehicle that does not have the newest safety feature illegal to possess? Also, such a push back could ruin the vehicle industry. In essence, they still achieve their end goal of removing our freedom to travel, and be left alone in the process.
What you need to be aware of is that they know people don’t want this and will hang on to their old cars. They can’t make it illegal after the fact to own one. So they’re making it harder and harder to fix them. They bankrupted First Brands Group, who was the company that owned just about all the aftermarket brands you’d likely encounter in Auto Zone and NAPA. They don’t have to risk laws and courts to mandate anything when it’ll just impossible to keep repairing old cars. They’re putting all the systems in place for the future behind the curtains while you’re distracted thinking your still fighting battles they moved on from years ago.
Looking around I see many new cars. People “love” this shit. Are buying this shit and then (head swiveling 360)bitching about it.
Yup just look at the number of people here – all talk no action.
Writing about how their 22’ such and such or 24’ so and so. Can’t be bothered. Insisting they have to buy new because of X, Y, or Z
Basically hypocrites.
They are all around us. Even here.
Do not blanket every last person with that, Anon. You have no idea what goes on outside this site, in members (here) towns, state and borough/county. Not all scream and holler when resisting this crap. That is a good way to lose your head in some cases. Fighting smart (rather than hard) can also be effective.
“ It is because you (and so many here) want to be left alone, is the very reason why they are not backing down on pushing the safety crap in vehicle.”. Shadow
“ Many are saying they will not buy a new vehicle due to this crap they are forcing on us. That no one asked for. I cannot help but wonder if-in response to people pushing back-they make any vehicle that does not have the newest safety feature illegal to possess? Also, such a push back could ruin the vehicle industry”
So exactly what is your plan? Cower in fear endless wondering what might happen? Why not just go buy yourself a new car right now so you can continue fighting smarter?
SMH
Oh for f*s sake, I was not attacking you, Anon, so get your undies out of your butt. Hell, the Russians are starting to look like they would be better allies than the likes of you with that kind of comment. Screw the cowering in fear. Maybe you should look in the mirror before you judge someone you do not even know.
Anon,
As Shadow noted, you do not know us or what we do. That said, I at least use my real name, so you know that. It gets very tiresome being hectored about my cowardice by an “anon.”