The Brits, wacky guys they are, have legislation pending to make it mandatory for ALL cars and trucks that operate/register in the Metro London area (huge!) to be equipped with a device that will:
1) Track your speed. If you're speeding at all, the device slows your car to the speed limit. And issues you a ticket, automatically debiting your bank account for the amount of the fine. Hell, who needs a judge? And...
2) It will have the capability to disable your car, should the authorities decide you need a little more "help". And...
3) Automatically call a wrecker for your government-agency-disabled car. And debit your bank account automatically for the amount of the tow. And...
4) Send a member of the local constabulary to your location to take you in, if that's what the authorities decide necessary. Plus, you have to reclaim your car, so there's more money.
So, let's recap here...They shut your vehicle down, give you a ticket and tow while charging your account for both, and essentially convicting you of a crime soley by word of automated sensors, and without a judge or jury of your peers. Confiscate your car and possibly haul you off to jail in the process. And this is good, how???
On the average day in London, you are videotaped or photographed over 300 (yes, 300!) times every single day!!! This is good again, how???
I've never ordered airbags of any kind in my car, yet I'm stuck paying, on average, $400.00 for the "privledge" of having the darn things...Not only has the government stuck these things in my car, they've essentially told me who I can carry in my car, as well. The baby HAS to go in the back, or he can get KILLED by an airbag! Kids are recommended to ride in the back seat now, and you can bet soon, it'll be mandatory...Incremental regulation by fanatical bureaucrats, unaccountable to anybody and unchecked by Congress. Hell, who needs terrorists?
