Nov 29, 2023
Did Laura Ingraham Just Say Something BASED?
Fox News host Laura Ingraham berated the idea of anti-speeding technology being mandated on U.S. cars.
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My speed limit is limited to 40.
Now, what you just saw is already a
reality in some European cars and will be
in all new European cars starting in 2024.
You can only go so fast and you know
that since the Democrats love the EU,
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they love Europe.
They always want to be in Europe.
They want to do the same thing
here in the United States.
Don't forget your constitutional rights.
Those can be damned.
Even your movement controlled.
The National Transportation Safety Board
is recommending that all new vehicles
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get technology that makes speeding, quote,
more difficult or completely impossible.
Laura Ingrams, right?
I never in a million years
thought I would say it, but she is right.
And we should not be taking what the EU
is doing as an example of what should
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be implemented here in the United States.
But unfortunately, it appears Pete
Buttigieg is taking a note and considering
implementing these policies.
So I'll get to that in just a moment.
Last year, the EU did in fact announce
that all new cars sold in Europe must come
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outfitted with anti-speeding technology
called Intelligent Speed Assistance.
Now, it's not all that intelligent.
In fact, oftentimes it malfunctions.
We'll get to that as well.
But I just don't think we need the
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government mandating that our vehicles,
like, serve as our nannies
and tell us what we can and can't do.
Okay.
You want law enforcement
to monitor the roads and stop people and
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give them citations when they're speeding?
Great in favor of that.
I don't want my car to automatically
slow down or make it impossible for me
to go a little over the speed limit.
I think that that's too invasive,
too intrusive, and I'm not in favor of it.
So the regulation in the EU, by the way,
requires all new cars to include
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this anti speeding technology by 2024.
And under the regulation,
auto manufacturers must implement
one of several of these tech options
that will basically kick into gear.
When a driver goes over the speed limit,
the car can alert the driver
with a visual warning followed
by an acoustic or vibrating warning.
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That's the least offensive one
out of all of them for me.
Like, okay, fine, you want to.
It's just like the seatbelt notification.
It's like, please fasten seatbelt,
please fasten seatbelt.
I'm not saying that I don't fasten my
seatbelt, but just give me a minute, okay?
Give me a minute.
And I've learned to deal with that.
It's fine, it's fine.
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The seatbelt is important. It's fine.
But.
And if you want to implement
this for speeding.
Okay, fine.
But this is where it starts
to get super annoying.
The gas pedal can gently push
back on the driver's foot.
No, no.
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Or the car can automatically
reduce the speed.
No. Now I'm going to take a quick vote
in the studio.
Raise your hand
if you're in favor of this.
I'm not going to retaliate, okay?
No one's in favor of it.
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Guys, what are we doing?
All right, there's more.
Let me finish that graphic.
The driver can override
the latter two functions.
The EU said by pushing slightly
harder on the gas pedal.
Okay, so the tech has some issues.
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As I mentioned earlier,
it's not foolproof.
And that's the other issue
I have with this.
And by the way, there's all sorts
of safety features on on vehicles.
Now that I do think
malfunction time to time.
And it's super annoying.
I remember one time my car, it has
this technology where it'll stop before it
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rear ends the car in front of me.
One time that happened when the car
in front of me was super far away.
I was on the freeway.
The car just stopped in the middle
of the road, in the middle of the freeway,
which was incredibly dangerous
and terrified the crap out of me.
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In this case, as Autocar notes, is,
the technology still isn't perfected.
During one test, the Isa system was
occasionally slow to respond and at one
point set the speed limit at 60mph while
driving through a quiet English village.
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It seems like that kind
of defeats the purpose.
Okay, and guess what?
Ingram is also correct about the National
Transportation Safety Board
and how they would like to implement
this policy here in the United States.
The National Transportation Safety Board
has recommended that all new automobiles,
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all new automobiles,
come equipped with technology meant
to make speeding difficult or impossible.
It's the second such recommendation
from the NTSB in six years that was
reported by NBC news just recently.
Now, look, it is true that speeding
in some cases leads to horrific accidents.
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Lives are lost.
For instance, last year,
more than 12,000 people in the United
States died in speed related crashes.
It is a problem.
I say we hire more cops to monitor
the roads and stop people who are driving
erratically and too quickly.
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Okay, I don't want technology in my car
that's going to automatically do anything
other than automatically,
you know, the automatic transmission.
I'm good with that, but I don't want it
to automatically slow down my speed.
That's super weird
and I'm not in favor of it.
It's too invasive.
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And look, 12,000 people dying a year from
speed related car crashes is devastating.
I don't want to make light of that.
I don't want to downplay that.
But we also have a lot of other problems,
like the fact that we have
over 100,000 Americans who die of drug
overdoses every year in this country.
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At this point, the fact that you
have a government agency
hyper focused on implementing policies
that would automatically make your car
slow down if you're driving too fast,
I don't think that's a priority.
But there is some good news here.
So apparently, Sarah Sulek,
a public affairs specialist for the NTSB,
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noted that the board does not have
regulatory or enforcement powers
and that it initially recommended
incentivizing intelligent speed assistance
technology to the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration back in 2017.
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The status of that recommendation,
even now that it's been reiterated,
is listed as not urgent.
And I would agree with that.
Non-urgent. Let's stay away from it.
I do not support it.
That doesn't mean I want people to speed.
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I don't want people to drive erratically.
I just don't like the I mean,
I think Ingram is right.
I don't like this obsession with control.
Right.
Making it increasingly difficult
for people to just exist.
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Knowing that their government trusts them
to be good, law abiding citizens
who aren't going to drive erratically.
Some people will and some people do, and
those people should be held to account.
They should deal with the citations.
They should deal
with the cops stopping them.
But implementing technology
that makes your car automatically slow
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down because it deems that you're going
too quickly in any particular zone.
I just think it's too intrusive.
It's too much.
It's too nanny state feeling,
and I'm not in favor of that.
So I'm curious what you guys think
because I'm sure some people disagree.
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Again, this is not to minimize
the problems that persist
as a result of people speeding.
I just think, you know, why punish
ordinary people with this super annoying
technology in their cars, when you should
just hold the people who are speeding
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and driving erratically accountable?
You should have better
monitoring of the roads.
Maybe you have radar speed checks
that doesn't even involve a cop,
and you get a citation in the mail and
that, you know, spanks you a little bit
and you realize you shouldn't be speeding.
Whatever. I just don't want this in my car.
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I really hope
that this doesn't come to fruition.
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