Guest Post by Eric Peters
Tsunamis are nature’s surprise party. The sky is blue, the waves lap the shore gently as usual. No reason to pack up the beach towel – much less run to the car and drive at top speed as fast as you can to the nearest highest ground.
But across the ocean, an earthquake. The wave is coming, even if all looks fine here – for now.
Such an earthquake hit the other day, across the ocean – in Europe. And the tsunami is coming. It will hit us about two years from now. And when it hits, you won’t be able to drive fast to the nearest high ground.
Or get away from a psychotic squeegee man.
The European Union has decreed – fatwa’d – that beginning with the 2022 model year, all new cars shall be electronically gelded, forced by software to hew to every speed limit, all the time. The same software – and hardware – that probably two-thirds of all new cars sold here already have – merely awaiting activation.
Helpful, convenient GPS mapping – so much easier than having to read and handle a paper map, as people used to.
Helpful, convenient “driver assists” – such as the little cameras that enable your car to automatically brake itself when those electronic eyes see another car up ahead, moving more slowly than your car. These cameras also see – and know, via the GPS mapping data, updated regularly – what the speed limit is on every road you drive.
And the car knows exactly how fast you are driving, in real time – all the time.
See the helpful little icon on the touchscreen? The one that looks just like a speed limit sign? Watch it change from 45 to 35, as the speed limit on the road you’re driving on changes. Now watch as it turns angry red, to warn you that you are driving faster – even if only by 1 MPH – than the posted speed limit.
For now, it is just a warning.
In Europe, it’s soon to be the cue for the car to slow itself down, whether you want to or not.
“Intelligent Speed Assist” will cut throttle – over which you have no real control, since the throttle is controlled by the car’s computer and not by your right foot, no matter how furiously you mash the accelerator pedal. Which is really just a throttle input sensor – “drive by wire” – which transmits data about how far down you have pushed the pedal, sends the data to the ECU – the computer that is in control of the engine – which then decides how much to rev the engine.
It can decide to not rev it at all.
And beginning in 2022, it will do just that.
“Speeding” will be countermanded at a stroke – for your saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety, of course.
But really for the sake of absolute control, just about, over your car – which amounts to control over your mobility. Which means, control over you.
“With the new advanced safety features” (“safety” features are always “advanced” – the marketers know how to make it all gone down easier) that will become mandatory,” eructs a loathsome termagant by the name of Elzbieta Bienkowska – who is Oberbefehlshaber der EU (European Commissioner, but it sounds so much better in German, which gives it just the right tone) “… we can have the same kind of impact as when safety belts were first introduced.”
Sure, of course.
Even more so by just walking. Or by herding the cattle into busses; much saaaaaaaaaaafer in there.
But this is close to that.
Every car suddenly equalized – dumbed down – to the level of the least common denominator, as decided by various termagants and Uncles. Your new Porsche 911 becomes the functional equivalent of an ’86 Yugo – since neither can go faster than the other.
This will almost certainly include getting going faster, too.
If a car can be electronically prevented from exceeding the posted speed limit, it can also be prevented via the same means from accelerating “too aggressively,” which termagant fraus such as Elzbieta Bienkowska will be certain to prevent, also for our saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety.
And she is right about seat belts. Like checkpoints, they set the precedent for what came next – as inevitably as sex leads to babies.
If the government can force car companies to install seat belts – and force use to wear them – it can force the car companies to install air bags – and force us to buy them. If it can force the car companies to install seat belts and air bags, it can force them to install electronic speed limiters – and us to buy them.
The car industry long ago gave up fighting any of these “advances” and is now fully onboard and with the program.
It has been anticipating what the EU just decreed, installing all the necessary hardware and software, bit by bit. GPS. Telematics, including in-car WiFi (to connect your car to the hive). Lane Keep Assist. Automated Emergency Braking.
Almost every 2019 car already has most of those.
All it will take is a flip of the electronic switch, so to speak.
It is no coincidence, by the way, that Volvo – a company which is owned by the Chinese – announced it would speed-control all its cars (see here) even before the EU diktat became public. Volvo frontman Hakan Samuelssen is just that – a frontman for the Chinese authoritarians who control Volvo – and who plan to control every single Chinese and are doing so, via this and other methods – including a Brave New World come-to-life “social credit” scheme that simply ostracizes and economically cripples people who don’t conform.
Why use bayonets when software is available?
“We want to start a conversation about whether car makers have the right or maybe even the obligation to install technology in cars that changes their driver’s behavior,” croons Samuelsson, one of your prospective Regional World Controllers, a sort of albino Mustapha Mond come to life.
Oh, but not to worry. This is China’s – and Europe’s – problem.
Which is like beachgoers in California not worrying about the earthquake that just happened a thousand miles away, in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Give it time.
Probably not much time.
The Safety Cult over here is just as potent as it is over there and anyone who believes there aren’t forces at work right here in the Heimat who are practically twitching with orgiastic ecstasy at the prospect of throwing that switch and controlling our cars, our mobility – and thereby, us – is as much a fool as the diplomats who came to Munich once upon a time to have a reasonable talk with that nice man with the funny moustache.
If this is not beaten back, it will be The End.
There will no longer be any real point to driving since driving will have become nothing more than transportation, as controlled and regimented by the fraus – and Uncles – as taking a ride on a city bus.
Which seems to be exactly the point. To extinguish forever the affection people once felt for cars and driving, for being in control of their own mobility. To turn them into a defeated, regimented proletariat.
You can be certain, by the way, that the speed of the armored chariots of the elite – EU and US – will not be limited in any manner whatsoever.
This being about controlling our mobility – never theirs.
“Safety” has as much to do with this as the TSA has to do with catching “terrorists.”
It’s us they’re out to catch – and not for “speeding.” That’s merely the pretext – just the same as “terrorists” at the airport and “drunks” at checkpoints.
Your Libertarian Car Guy has been telling you so for years – and here, at last, it is.
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Maybe the next purchase will be a used ambulance, fire truck, or State trooper decommissioned.
Surely those won’t have speed limitations. Or will they?
Depends on the software.
I am already driving my last new vehicle based on all this new crap i just dont want to deal with. Ever tried backing 30 foot of trailer using just mirrors into a trailer width spot? You need to open the door and look back because the end is out of view of the mirrors. For safety, my truck puts itself in park, forcing me to back up blindly, for safety of course. And that is the tip of the iceburg of stupid harmful useless features, and i will not be hamstrung and forced to drive as slow as these incompetents populating our roadways. If i have to drive an old carbeurated beater, i will.
Yes. Get one or two while you still can, and secure some spare parts, eh? Availability may become an issue.
Planned obsolescence.
Long live the classic car clubs!
Muscle cars, for those that have them in excellent condition, already retain high value, appreciating, not depreciating, as time goes on.
Re: spare parts inventory, be careful with who & how you share that information.
For instance, saying: ” I have a spare tranny locked up in the attic of my polebarn”… might raise a few eyebrows, and bring the gestapo over for a visit and investigation.
“Bring out the Gimp”
Technology overriding the human operator. So, like a Boeing 737 Max 8. They say they’ve fixed the software for those Max 8’s. I say let them fly again – as soon as the Boeing management and board of directors have all flown 100 cross-country flights in them.
Guess exotic car sales will be tanking soon then.
Surely not, since they are purchased by most often by the “elite”, i.e., the ruling class; some form of reverse-graduated-scale will apply, so that, beyond a certain purchase price (and environmental impact fee)(and gusaline consumption tax)(and politician bribe fund fee)(and rubber-depletion tax)(and driver-threat-matrix-score background check) no electronic “governor” will be mandated.
2005 F-350 diesel now; in 10 years a 2015… and that should be that.
1996 2500 Dodge Cummins–mechanical
2007 3500 5.9—and that should finish it
Dig it dude!
Gonna make it hard to get away from the cops…
I kind of figured this and the sensor that keeps cars a certain distance apart with auto braking.
If you think new cars sales are tanking now, just wait until these “helpful” features appear on every new vehicle. Only those who view cars as conveyance appliances will be visiting the showrooms. No self-respecting car guy will ever consider caving in to the cultural marxist’s safety police. Well, maybe the pussies in Europe, since they have already sacrificed their daughters to the invading hordes of savages without even a whimper. The American Sheeple had better wake up and smell the coffee (organic only,) before they find themselves disarmed and on foot.
Ask yourself, who would want to limit your mobility? Who would want to disarm you? Who would want you to comply with all of the PC nonsense, which include acceptance of the homosexual agenda, gender confusion, illegal immigration, etc. The list goes on and on, but their is a central source for all of our woes. Adolf Hitler fought these devils and tried to warn the world of their treachery. After all of these years under their rule – how are things working out for you? They won, we lost.
After years of owning new Volvos – I’ve had it. I recently purchased a new Subaru Outback with a 3.6 liter – 275 hp engine – normally aspirated. My wife is due for a new car in a year or two.
The way things are going, these may be our last new cars – for quite a while. Makes me glad I’m 70.
Good choice on the H-6, Dutch! They’re bulletproof compared to the 4s, especially the turbo 4.
The number of deaths on 2 lane roads from “passing errors” will be conveniently swept under the rug for sure.
The first rule of government is “Thou shall not attempt to save yourself.” Your ass belongs to us.
“All your ass are belong to US!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQE66WA2s-A
Luddites of the world unite!
What will the Fatwa police ever do, with no speeding revenues coming in?
I suspect this elimination of citizen mobility will result in a few things:
1. New car sales tanking, as noted by one of the other commenters. Buying a new car in the future will be like spending $30,000 buying a mother-in-law who hates you.
2. Our roads will start to look like Cuba with everyone with an ounce of brains driving old vehicles that don’t have “helpful” electronics.
3. A great money-making career will come to exist in auto electronics repair, where “repair” means disabling the Big Brother control features.
The cloud people always think they have things figured out, but they never anticipate the unintended consequences. My hope is one of those consequences involves torches and pitchforks.
Indeed, aftermarket “fix-it” kits will be all the rage, while YouTube will be censoring “helpful” videos on a daily basis. I often thought that a miniaturized “EMP” unit might be a good thing to try and invent to destroy the subcutaneous tracking devices, etc. that are surely in the works.
You can run but not hide from the soon coming government surveillance state or the judgement of God.
Does this mean I’ll have to modify my 2001 Suzuki Bandit 1200 or forfeit it to the state as contraband?
Hey everyone! Don’t worry too much! In states already hurting for cash, like CA, I assure you it won’t happen anytime soon. They have no way to fund pensions as it is, so I’m POSITIVE they will not sacrifice their cash cow – traffic citations – just so a few of us don’t die each year. Trust me. The courts are overflowing with people as it is and the burden of proof if you contest your ticket is apparently no longer something that matters – they are that hard up. Let me delight you with the tale of how I not only proved I was wearing my seatbelt when I was pulled over and ticketed for not wearing one, but I also proved the Deputy perjured himself when he testified about seeing the seatbelt unfastened when he was looking through my rear window prior to walking to my side window. Sadly for him, my SUV not only has all those rows he would have to see through, but factory limo tint on the rear window. Tsk Tsk Tsk. The Judge’s response? “Well son, you certainly seem to have produced enough evidence for reasonable doubt, but I’m not REALLY a Judge (he was a Commissioner), so I’m going to fine you anyway and if you want to continue trying to contest it [now that you already used the one “Perry Mason” moment you’ll ever have] tell the clerk and they will schedule something for you in a year or so when the calendar isn’t as full.” The part of me that loved the law died a little that day. I paid $150.00 for…hmm….I guess just because I saw the writing on the wall and realized the dice were loaded from the start. I could see the Judge in a year, but he would just find another way to bend me over and rape my tender little poop-chute. So, I lied to myself and said it was okay because I NEVER wear my seatbelt when I drive my ’65 Mustang (if it goes, I go) and I never get tickets (then again, it only has two lap belts). Sure, that’s it. Karma. And I’m flush again. I may have even managed to deceive myself enough to grin. So have no fear, because if they are so desperate they will abandon the foundation of this country for $150, then I don’t think you have to worry about them restricting your speed limit. In fact, make sure they aren’t subtly trying to creep it higher to get you your own traffic citation!
The GPS sensor that picks up speed limits is not completely accurate. I’ve driven on roads parallel to our motorways and it has picked up the higher speed limit from the road alongside my vehicle and vice versa.
The head of our Automobile Association was test driving one of these speed limited cars and it restricted him to 30mph as he was trying to join the inside lane of a motorway that was at 70mph. Very scary and dangerous. Try pulling out in front of a truck doing 60, when your car won’t let you go above 30.
Reports do suggest you will be able to ‘push through’ the limiter, like you can do with cruise control, but I’m not convinced.
YOu say:
“is as much a fool as the diplomats who came to Munich once upon a time to have a reasonable talk with that nice man with the funny moustache.”
Who were the “diplomats”?
What was the “Agenda” they were sent to promote?
Who – really – sent them???
Read the true History – who pushed, paid and wanted Germans to be killed and survivors FINANCIALLY enslaved.