Anticipating Government

Guest Post by Eric Peters

You may have wondered why it is that every 2024 model year vehicle – as in all of them – comes standard with a slew of “driver assistance technologies,” always marketed as being “advanced.” This being a form of the etymological deception-pressure tactics so pervasively used in politics. As in “progressive” politics. We’re forward-thinking, you see. And if you do not agree, well, then you are obviously a stick-in-the-mud at best and probably something worse.

You see?

It is thus “advanced” to have a car that “assists” (that is, controls) the driver. As to the why, an announcement the other day by Mitsubishi and TomTom – maker of portable GPS systems – heralding the very latest and most “advanced” driver assistance technology they’ve jointly developed, gives us a window into that.

Mitsubishi, TomTom Combine on Cockpit that Monitors Driver, Traffic reads the headline of the news story that fails to explain the why.

Among the “advances”:

A thermal camera can track biometric information to provide insight into short- and long-term changes to a driver’s physical status, triggering autonomous pullovers and alerts to emergency services if necessary.”

The article quotes Grygorii Maistrenko of Mitsubishi Electric Automotive, who says “the company’s FLEXConnect dashboard comes with virtual sensing powered by BlackBerry in an in-cabin system with an edge-to-cloud vehicle data platform. . . the collaboration will help advance road safety by utilizing sensor data to anticipate safety risks, reduce driver distractions, highlight potential driving hazards and enable new consumer experiences.”

Italics added.

Very “advanced,” indeed.

Can you think of anyone you know who wants to experience a car that collects their “biometric information”? That will “autonomously” pull itself over when it (or whoever controls it) decides you ought not to be driving? That alerts “emergency services” – i.e., police – when it decides your driving warrants such intervention?

Of course, there are people who very much want such “advances” to be standard equipment in every new vehicle. Including the wooden Indian who fronts for the panopticon Left that has taken control of the apparatus of control.

Government is all about control.

That – per Dr. Evil describing the role of his henchman, Random Task – is what it does.

But this does not explain why the car industry – and this means every single car company – has become something even worse than the government. Because none of them stand up to the government anymore, which is bad enough as it signals they’ll do whatever the government says – irrespective of the costs imposed on customers; irrespective, ultimately, of the costs imposed on them. (The obvious example here being the potentially catastrophic costs they’ve practically begged the government to impose on them in the form of the bum’s rush to turn vehicles into devices the majority of buyers want no part of.)

Worse, though, is this business of anticipating government.

Even before the termite-riddled wooden Indian hurled the fatwa (written by others, of course) requiring that by 2026 – only a little more than one model year from now – all new vehicles will have “advanced technology” that monitors and corrects “driver performance” – The parameters of the latter laid down by the same people who wrote the fatwa signed off on by the termite-riddled wooden Indian who moves like Old Chief Woodenhead from Creepshow – most new cars already have such “advanced technology.”

Many cars have had it for years.

In other words, the car companies have anticipated the fatwa. They have developed the “technology” on their own and have been embedding it as standard equipment in cars before any requirement came down forcing them to do this.

And absent any appreciable market demand for such “technology.”

There are, no doubt, a few car buyers who would willingly opt (and pay for) such “advanced technology.” Just as, back in the early ’70s, there were a few car buyers who willingly opted for (and paid extra for) air bags, which were then available in a few GM and Chrysler vehicles, for those interested in buying them.

Few did.

Fast forward a few years and the government made it clear it would be requiring the car companies to make air bags – or “supplemental restraints,” in the always-mewly language of government force – standard in the vehicles they made. The car companies fought the government; explained – well, they tried to explain – that air bags were expensive and that they might (as they did) hurt and even kill children, older people and so on.

They were overruled.

It was the last time the car companies tried to oppose the government.

Ever since then (and this was back in the ’90s) the car industry has become more-and-more like the industries of the old Soviet Union, now in the process of reincarnating itself in the West. Meaning, they have become adjuncts of the government, not merely doing as they’re told grudgingly and even sometimes trying to get away with not doing as they’re told, but aggressively doing more than the government tells them they must do at the moment.

Such as make “advanced technologies” like speed limit “assistance” and lane-keep “assistance” and braking “assistance” systems standard in vehicles years before anyone had heard of a federal fatwa requiring such “technology” be made standard equipment.

The car industry having decided what buyers want no longer matters.

What matters is being in good with the government. What matters is fervid amen’ing of the narrative.

One sees this, also, in what pretends to be the automotive press, which always praises the latest “advances” – much the same as the general press always sung the praises of the mRNA drugs being pushed as “vaccines.”

Just like the journalists of Pravda, all those years ago.

And here we are, again.

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