Aside from it's a new restriction upon you, why is this atrocious?
I can see a safety-related argument that you may need to briefly accelerate to get out of a sticky situation. I cannnot see a safety-related argument wihch says BuyMyBitcoins needs to be allowed to drive 10mph or 20mph above the posted limit for an extended duration of time.
I expect ISA in active/enforcing mode is coming, and it's just a question of whether new cars have it in 5 years or in 30 years.
Because the people who support this are also the ones who hate drivers and do crazy things like impose 20mph (30km/h) speed limits in cities on the main roads. The point is to degrade the quality of life and force everyone into public transport slice by slice. But the HN crowd is disproportionately made up of those who think this way.
If speed limits were set to the natural safe speed the road was designed for people would be far less cynical about these things.
Quite frankly it’s even more tracking under the guise of public safety. So now I’ll have some sort of driver permanent record that needs to be hooked in to some system that needs to know where I am so it can say whether or not I’m speeding. Not only can I not turn this off, it’s a trove of data that can incriminate me in other unrelated ways. That data can be monetized as well. In this premise the insurance agency is already looking, so why can’t other data brokers?
Here’s where I think you’ll disagree with me the most. Speeding is bad but it doesn’t warrant having some big brother system to keep track of everytime someone has ever gone 10-20 over. People die because of speeders, yes, but not enough to warrant this kind of surveillance.
We still have other ways of enforcing speed limits and enhancing public safety on the roads.
Maybe the road would be safer (or just as safe but more efficient) with a posted limit 20mph above what it is. But the pearl-clutching mothers of the world can't imagine a scenario where you can drive 50mph on a suburban street without killing half a dozen people so we'll never know.
