Thoughts
“We need to breed a new generation of drivers who find driving in a more relaxed manner can be just as rewarding.”
(On technology coming to the EU that limits cars to driving the speed limit, and is impossible to disable.)
This is way way too authoritarian for me.
The government has no obligation change public opinion, and there’s no justification to using hostile technology in an attempt to corral people.
I’m not even staunchly opposed to the regulation after thinking about it, but I hate that this article and quote is justifying it as a natural thing for the government to do when in fact it is an example of a government becoming increasingly authoritarian. The difference between a highly regulated state and an authoritarian one is that the authoritarian states expects you to thank it for ‘making you a better person.’ The dream of authoritarianism is to change people.