Black Boxes In All US Cars

[mr. worncoat]

Beginning in June of 2011, all new cars manufactured and sold in the United States will be required to have a mandated black box device installed, which can be used to monitor several different physical and technical data points.

www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/new-car-purchases-starting-june-will-have-a-mandatory-black-box-installed?fb_comment=33589026

On may 5th, the White House had said that it was considering on doing this, that it'd possibly enforce taxing people per mile by using devices such as this. So this serves multiple purposes. It records where citizens are, it sets them up to be sucked further dry in the wallets (especially when the carbon tax is implimented), and, in the long run, it aims to keep its citizens from being able to move easily. It's been of my opinion that they're roping the citizens in for greater control, and this only confirms it.

Thoughts, anybody?

[blacky]

Makes me glad I am not in the United States, or that I haven't got a car for that matter

[Kiryū Kazuma]

they was thinking of doing that in the uk but everytime it gets mentioned huge backlash

[alx]

Actually, it sounds like incentive to either keep your car or buy used. Definitely not a policy to roll out in a struggling economy...

[Toadkiller Dog]

Yeah, I agree with Alx here.
They can't tax my bike and my feet. I'm 27, have a driver's license, but no car. And with this possibly going into effect, there's no way in hell I'd be getting a new car, even if given the choice.

That's the thing though. They won't be able to make the taxing happen. It won't work. Because only a percentage of drivers will have cars new enough to utilize the black box feature, and thus there will be a huge backlash because they'll be the only ones getting taxed.

That's not gonna work, at all.

[mr. worncoat]

Yeah, it might not specifically effect you or me in our lifetimes, but our kids or grandkids might end up having to deal with this. And what's to keep anybody from installing these or smaller devices on cars during inspections? I'm not sure if anybody else knows, but police have done it before, where they randomly throw a tracking device on the bottom of a suspect's car to keep tabs. If society keeps becoming something where everyone is treated as a potential criminal, it'd be "for the safety and security of all" to enforce this kind of thing.