Autocar & Big Brother!!!!!!!!!!

[stuart1969]

Anyone read the autocar article about GPS, airbag speed recording, ABS wheel speed recording etc. being used against us by the law!!!! Pretty grim really, makes me happy to be in an Elise, no airbag thus no sensor, no ABS (S2 111S) so no wheelspeed sensor, no GPS as I know my way round my thrashing ground better than any american sattelite.
Was wondering though if there is no legislation forcing collation & storage of this data the should the big boy not offer a "data cleansed" option. Put it this way, I was thinking of buying an M3 for day to day use but the thought of being "grassed off" by this in the event of anything untoward is not good. Better the dealer tells you for £XXXX you could have the "data free" version, would get my vote. However I think it will be a matter of time untill all the poofs in London decide it would be better for us to have shitty little pocket traffic cops in every car.
Good news is makes Elise ownership much safer in the future and if they ever make us fit stupid GPS policemen to them then just wrap the antenna in lots of aluminium foil, hell just cut it off and be dammned. sorry to rant but i was SSSSsssssoooooooo pissed off, thoughts please

[Martin_S]

Not sure this is the right place for this topic (general gassing may be better), but...

I'm not actually that worried about this sort of stiuff, yet. The Government doesn't want to stop us speeding. If there was a genuine will to restrict speeds to legal levels, there is the technical means to do so (70mph speed limiters for a start, and 'beacons' at the start of lower speed limits which send instructions to the engine management systems).

What they are interested in is extracting maximum additional revenue from the motorist. They are unlikely to go to the extreme of requesting data logged from onboard systems on our cars, because the additional paperwork would make this type of prosecution less cost effective, and automatic collection of such data would still raise significant resistance on the grounds of personal liberty.

Still, if you want to be able to live your own life in the future (not just what speed you drive at; what you read, what you say, how you work), it's time to vote for a party that doesn't believe you are too stupid to make your own judgements.

[JohnL]

Martin_S said:

it's time to vote for a party that doesn't believe you are too stupid to make your own judgements.

Any suggestions then?

[Martin_S]

...yes, bit of a problem there, I must admit. Conservatives are at least making promises to reduce the 'nanny state' syndrome, but lets be honest, you don't become a politician of any flavour without a deep-seated desire to meddle in other peoples lives.

Personally, I'm an anarchist...