Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

I'm agnostic on the whole issue of whether phones should be used in cars, so I don't want to get into that debate. It is possible, however, that there has been no reduction in accidents since the ban came into effect because everyone ignores it. Hand held cell phones have been banned in Ontario for a while now, and I see people using them all the time.

How many researchers have found evidence that anyone in California follows the rule-of-Law. That is a nonsense argument.

If the idiots want to use useless data; why not ask NJ folks if the Mafia exists or ever existed... NOPE!

The number of distracted drivers has increased around here with cell phone use, and there are no traffic cameras. It's common now to hear stories of people on cell phones causing hazardous traffic conditions. You bring up a valid point; traffic cameras would be a good way to catch people with their cell phone held against their ear, and yes the penalties should cost a lot more.

Somebody signing his comment John Galt thinks the intrusiveness of the surveillance state should be increased and government should take an even greater role in dictating personal behavior. Did you ever read the book that name came from?

Who said anything about the government having direct control over your car? Does the government have control of aircraft when they fly on auto pilot, or boats on autohelm? That's quite the leap of logic. If they are affordable I would buy a self driving car in a heartbeat. You could drive across the country and sleep in the ack seat when you got tired. You could read the paper and have breakfast in the car on the way to work. Traffic congestion would go down considerably if all cars were self driving because there would be no idiots driving.

While you are reading the paper or having a nap in the back of your car on the way to work or across the country, your self-driving car will be eliminating traffic congestion the same way AutoCorrect eliminates mistakes in your text messages.

Big Government is paying some serious money to make the robot car a reality. DARPA alone is into it for billions, the Europeans likewise. I've got an extensive series of posts on the subject at my place, you should check them out.

Bottom line: given everything else that the gubermint boys do with technology, what on Earth makes you think any of this is going to be to your benefit?

Liberals pine for the days when all traffic moved by government controlled trains or on foot, they really want that situation to return. Its almost impossible to impose their will on a mobile population because people just LEAVE. Witness the American North East and California, bleeding population to lower taxed areas of the USA in the -millions- the last ten years.

The purpose of the robot car is not so you can relax and be safer on the road. It is to track your movements and restrict them at will. You will wake up one morning to discover none of the cars in your entire town will start, or if they do start they will only drive to the police station. That is the purpose of the robot car. Control.

"Who said anything about the government having direct control over your car? [...] That's quite the leap of logic."

What you have, sir, is a failure of the imagination and an inability to connect the dots. Does the name Edward Snowden ring a bell?

"The purpose of the robot car is not so you can relax and be safer on the road. It is to track your movements and restrict them at will. You will wake up one morning to discover none of the cars in your entire town will start, or if they do start they will only drive to the police station. That is the purpose of the robot car. Control."
~the Phantom

YES! High River on steroids. American car makers are already talking about putting kill switches like they have on Police Bait vehicles on all the cars they manufacture.