Speed limiters – Big Brother in your cockpit.
An obnoxious piece of legislation is about to be proposed by the Department of Transport in mimicry of the detested EU. The government proposes that all new cars must be fitted with speed limiters. This devil spawned technology sets off an alarm in your car when you go over the speed limit and automatically reduces the power of the engine or even retards further depression of the accelerator pedal to ensure compliance with the limit. These measures are rationalised on the basis of safety and the governments moronic quest for net zero. In effect, Big Brother hand in hand with Extinction Rebellion will take over your vehicle.
This hateful legislation originates in the EU and the Department of Transport wants to keep us aligned. But we left the EU precisely to get away from this crap.
The car industry is split on it. Performance and luxury car manufacturers say it will destroy the market for them – which it will. What’s the point owning a McClaren when you can’t push it any more than a Ford Focus? However, the Society of Motoring Manufacturers and Traders, welcomed the measures and say that diverging from the EU regulations would be bad for the industry given the close ties between the two. This is bollox – the UK industry has survived for years with right hand cars diverging from the EU so why do we need speed limiters.
The proposed legislation also misses an important safety point. There are times when a driver needs speed to get out of a dangerous situation.
This is a serious and intrusive infringement of individual freedom and yet another manifestation of the Blob’s demonisation of drivers. Of course we should all drive safely and adhere to the speed limit (ahem!). But why can’t the Blob trust to the common sense of most drivers to drive safely and responsibly? The vast majority of motorists are safe and sensible drivers and, if not, there’s already an arsenal of penalties to deal with them ranging from speed awareness courses, fines and points through to disqualification.
The good news is that you can deactivate the system but you need to do it every time you start the car as it resets automatically. On principle I object to having this ghastly technology installed in any car I own and will seek to rip it out entirely. I’m lucky enough to own two performance cars in addition to the daily charabang – a V6 Morgan and a V8 Ferrari, and I’m going to be clinging onto them for the rest of my life, because they don’t have this shit technology installed. The best cars are just an engine, chassis, wheels and coachwork with no or minimum computerised interference between the driver and the engine. That’s real motoring.
Fuck off and leave my cars alone! Motorised cuntishness at its worst.
Nominated by: MMCM
