I recently rented a huge truck (the biggest you can rent with a normal car drivers license) and it had a ton of high tech stuff, lane departure warning, speed warnings, auto braking, and so much more.

The issue was when I was on the highway going 70mph (the max speed of the truck, also artificially restricted) there was a tiny side road with a speed limit of 35mph, and the truck on the highway slammed the brakes with warnings on the dash that I was exceeding the speed limit of 35, but I’m on a highway with a speed limit of 75mph.

Stupid technology. Makes things more dangerous than it should be.

“Instead of using traffic calming to slow cars or designing cities properly so that people don’t need to drive in the first place, let’s violate people’s privacy and property rights to forcibly install a tracking and speed governor device in their car because even when we’ve already suspended their license it’s still somehow unreasonable to actually stop them from driving! Car-dependency and car-supremacy, fuck yeah!”

Everything about this is comprehensively despicable.

There’s gotta be a “subscription fee” for these speed limiters for every month they’re installed foe the offender. Fees to install them. Fees to remove them. Fees for the convenience of the ability to make electronic payments. Then there’s the fine for speeding in the first place, the convenience fees to pay the fine, the fee for the traffic safety course online to avoid higher insurance rates, etc.

The State is being enshittified by privatization. It’s not as if the State isn’t difficult enough to deal with on its own, but now the layers of shitty middle men existing to extract tolls for every interaction is growing.

Edit: after looking around I found this program is called “Intelligent Speed Assistance” (ISA).

Looks like it’s far more widespread than anyone thinks.

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