Feds Set To Mandate "Black Box" Data Recorders In Every Car And Truck ... Privacy advocates worry, but technology has caught bad drivers lying about accident causes ... Accident investigators will soon have black-box data from all crashes, because of a new rule set to be finalized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ... Many motorists don't know it, but it's likely that every time they get behind the wheel, there's a snitch along for the ride. ... This week ended the public comment period on a proposed law that would put so-called black boxes in every new car sold by September 1, 2014. The thing is, most cars already have them unbeknownst to many drivers. – AP
Dominant Social Theme: The government intends to make you safer, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Free-Market Analysis: We've known this was coming but we are still surprised that the plans proceed – and that the rationale remains the same.
What articles like this show clearly is that wire services like AP are content with sticking with a general theme that governments are "here to help" and that the intrusiveness of government and demolition of privacy is less important than saving lives.
A subdominant social theme would be that industry and government working together can make a difference. But this, in fact, is an invitation to more authoritarianism rather than less.
Private public partnerships are always going to yield to mercantilism in which government is used by some powerful private powers to advance their agendas over others.
In this case, the private party is, generally speaking, a tiny power elite that wants to implement world government and is continually launching initiatives to generate the required result.
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6 comments:
Keep cheering, you lemmings. They AREN'T going to tell you that this is one more piece in the total surveillance package. THAT might alarm SOME people. Oh no. Its for our SAFETY. But they have yet to explain how this recording device would make us SAFER. It WILL help insurance companies deny more claims. It WILL help the authorities know a LOT more about you. But safety? I can already hear their next argument for these things ---"It's for the children, for God's sake!! The safety of our precious children!!" And how long do you think it might take for them to program it to issue a fine for detecting an electronic signal that says you were speeding? Can you people see past the latest National Enquirer scandal? We are, without question, being set up for absolute and total surveillance, and by logical progression, control and punishment. I'm surprised they haven't brought up "terrorism" as a reason for this....and like the "public comment" period offered about the bridge tolls, its ONLY a ploy to make you think you have some input. The decision has already been made. And YOUR decisions don't count anymore....
Safety? How does that "Black Box" has anything to do with safety? I don't know about any aeroplane going down and being "saved" from crashing by a "Black Box". Just another Infrigement of Civil Liberties by Federal Government.
Hopefully, hackers will come to the rescue again and come up with a fix to kill/silence the box.
you might not know it most cars already have this and is used by insurance companies to investigate accidents
Well now we may find out really who the bad drivers are!
Smart meter on your house, black box on your car, remote GPS activation on your smart phone, hmm...glad I'm not paranoid. Makes me wonder if a tracking chip implanted on everyone would not be good for safety and security. You don't suppose someone has already thought of that.
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