Speed control could be the absolute limit

Big Brother looks like becoming an even bigger threat to personal freedom on the world’s roads.

A new British program is approaching on-road tests of a system that could prevent cars from exceeding a posted speed limit at any time for any reason.

The system is called Intelligent Speed Adaption ISA. Using the same type of GPS tracking employed in satellite navigation systems, it can match a cars speed to the limit on any road.

ISA is being proposed with three levels of control:
A warning to the driver,
An optional system to limit the cars speed,
Full automatic control to prevent speeding.

Britain is a heavy user of speed cameras, despite research that shows many have no effect on the road toll in areas which they are installed.

ISA is backed by Britain’s Institute of Advanced Motorists, which says the system could (not will) reduce road toll deaths and injuries 29 per cent. But it expects resistance.

“ISA maybe able to ensure all cars observe speed limits provided critical safety conditions are met,” IAM Director of research and policy Neil Greig says “However, even with thses assurances, a deep-rooted concern about Big Brother will have to be overcome.”

He believes one ways towards ISA acceptance would be to promise no speeding fines for drivers who used them.

Herald Sun, 9 Jan 2009 carsguide.com.au section of the newspaper.

What seems as fiction only a few years ago can become a reality today.

An article posted in the UK publication of the Mobile Gazette, titled : UK Government to Shut Down GSM Networks was intended to be an April Fools joke.

It contained information that seemed like science fiction, but is becoming a reality today.

A film titled The Island (2005) : (ref: IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/ ) is about human beings, been harvested for organ replacement in a 'Utopian Facility' today the real world example is
Prisoners in China, who's organs are being sold on the black market to the highest overseas bidder. A move that IS SUPPORTED by governments.

Fact: The Australian Labour Government of the 80's said that if it were up to them, they would BAN CARS, as it gives the population too much freedom.

At the end of the day, it's all about the control of population movement.

Here we have this realisation coming in by force, under the quite palatable banner,
"to save lives" or "for our own good".