
Government Control Coming via Your Car
Politicians from California’s Ruling Party make clear they want to get Golden State drivers out of their cars and into government transportation. The state’s own policies explicitly aim to reduce car ownership, and now it appears if they can’t persuade enough drivers, they’ll just make the experience more annoying until people give up.
I got a taste of this next-level government-imposed nuisance while visiting Germany over the holidays to visit my family. The rental car agency provided me with a nice new government-compliant Audi A6.
And it was the most obnoxious driving experience I’ve ever had.
In a preview of the new California law which will require mandatory beeping whenever one drives over the posted speed limit, the German-compliant Audi would immediately and incessantly start beeping whenever my speed exceeded the most recent speed limit sign by as little as 1 km/hr.
This would be fine, but for the fact that the system doesn’t take into account that speed limit signs were never intended to provide the level of granular micromanagement of drivers that is now being forced upon anyone who gets behind the… Read More