Getting Harder To Speed

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Canadian auto regulators are testing a system that would enforce speed limits by making it harder to push down the car's gas pedal once the speed limit is passed, according to a newspaper report.

The system being tested by Transport Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Department of Transportation, uses a global positioning satellite device installed in the car to monitor the car's speed and position. If the car begins to significantly exceed the speed limit for the road on which it's travelling the system responds by making it harder to depress the gas pedal, according to a story posted on the Toronto Globe and Mail's Website.

The pilot test, using 10 cars driven by volunteers, is believed to be the first in North America, although similar systems have been tested in several European countries, according to the newspaper.

The agency is also testing another system that warns drivers with a voice alarm and a light whenever they start to speed, the newspaper said. Those systems are already on sale, according to the report. The company that makes the alarm device, the Otto Driving Companion, has already sold 400 of the units in Winnipeg alone, the newspaper said.

[jiggysubman]

I can't even begin to debate what kind of privacy issues this brings up.
On a possible plus side, you could use the old "gps speed regulation made me late for work" trick.

[Brucelee]

In a collectivist society, the only privacy you have is the one that pols and bureaucrats let you have. This suprises me not one whit about Canada. Not to pick on them, but this sort of behavior is commonplace in a socialist society.

Not that I endorse speeding. But imagine if you will, if the govt put the same zeal into capturing and punishing violent criminals. Instead, they take the easy way out and target drivers, who as we know, are a much steadier source of income AND an easier group to manage.

Now, don't get me started.

[Biz-z Z]

As Mr. Heston would probably say, the only way they’ll get my non-GPS-speed-regulated Porsche is to pry it from my cold, dead hands!

[blinkwatt]

Right leg work outs here I come.

[Brucelee]

If that ever came to pass here in the US (doubt it would) I would figure out how to disable this device or buy an older car.

Man, does this piss me off.