From the federal bureaucracy that brought us the tests that were designed to convict everyone of drunk driving, er, measure sobriety, comes an announcement from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that they intend to require all vehicles to be monitored 24/7 by Uncle Sam. NHTSA will require that all motor vehicles become equipped with something called Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications technology. V2V will constantly broadcast, via radio wave, the car's location, direction, speed, and the number of passengers in the vehicle. Failure to install and maintain this device in your vehicle will be a crime, enforced at gunpoint. NHTSA hopes to have this legislation passed within the next five weeks. According to US Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, the V2V program will serve two main purposes: "To coerce people out of their cars"; and to tax people "on the number of miles that they traveled." I'll leave you with this gem of a quote by LaHood. He either consciously or subconsciously gives about the best definition of government I've ever heard: "About everything we do here (in the Department of Transportation) is government intrusion in people's lives." Further Reading:
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