Feds to Take Control of Your Car in 1984 Scheme

Big Brother to Control Your Car
The Fascist Federal government will dictate to car makers 

to install 1984 computers to take control of your car

away from you. 

Signaling a technological leap forward for the auto industry and a boon to Silicon Valley, the Federal government announced Monday it will take steps to FORCE all new cars and light trucks to communicate with each other (and the government too I am sure).  

The Feds claim the move is aimed at significantly reducing the more than 30,000 vehicle deaths each year.

For decades, the focus of auto safety has primarily been on surviving the "traumatic" impact of crashes through features like air bags and seat belts. But now the focus has shifted to avoiding crashes by developing technology to make future vehicles “smart” enough to detect and respond to threats, such as an oncoming vehicle reports the San Jose Mercury News.

The technology, known as “vehicle-to-vehicle,” or “V2V,” lets cars “talk” to each other and exchange safety data, such as speed and position. If a nearby car abruptly changes lanes and moves into another car’s blind spot, the car would be alerted.

“Vehicle-to-vehicle technology represents the next generation of auto safety improvements, building on the lifesaving achievements we’ve already seen with safety belts and air bags,” U.S.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said during a news conference in Washington, D.C.

“By helping drivers avoid crashes, this technology will play a key role in improving the way people get where they need to go while ensuring that the U.S. remains the leader in the global automotive industry.”

Already, several major automakers have set up technology research and development centers in Silicon Valley, while companies like Google and Tesla Motors have been at the forefront of efforts to develop "self-driving," or autonomous, cars.

Federal transportation officials did not announce when the new regulations would go into effect but said they hope to propose the new V2V rules before Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017.



Big Brother Wants to Control Your Car's Speed
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Drivers face having their cars  fitted with devices that slam on the brakes if they go over the speed limit, under draconian new road safety measures being drawn up by officials in Brussels.

All new cars would have to include camera systems that ‘read’ the limits displayed on road signs and automatically apply the brakes.

And vehicles already on the road could even be sent back to garages to be fitted with the ‘Big Brother’ technology, meaning that no car in the UK would be allowed to travel faster than 70mph – the speed limit on motorways.

Read more at: UK Daily Mail.