Having just read about the poor(er) Tesla owner whose Dad accidentally bought him an autopilot, I finally realise the ‘next step in speed traps’ (please just accept they are speed traps for this argument).
The technology is already in an increasing number of vehicles to read speed limit signs and compare them to (often outdated or just inaccurate) navigation maps. Some cars have options to allow the sign reading limits to override the limits in the maps.
Step back and imagine our dollar hungry governments making a deal with Tomtom, Garmin, and the manufacturers so that if the vehicle detected it was over the posted limit it would just charge your on-file card (required as part of rego) and assign demerits. If you wanted to challenge them click ‘here’…
How efficient that would be. No police hiding behind bushes and no favouritism of where since it would be everywhere; there couldn’t possibly be errors or mistakes in the systems by definition (right!) so challenges would be costly to file.
George Orwell, you understood where it would go.
