[OT] Orwell is alive and well in Canada

[Alma J Wetzker]

Ted Ozolins wrote:
> Bill Campbell wrote:
>>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005, David Bandel wrote:
>>>On 12/1/05, burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:
>>>>They just had a clip on the news where the Chief of Crash Avoidance Technology
>>>>for the Canadian Department of Transportation  (Transport Canada) was
>>>>demonstrating technology that they were considering making mandatory across
>>>>the country...
>>>>
>>>>A satellite GPS-enabled device that calculates your speed and will prevent the
>>>>gas pedal from being depressed further once you have reached the mandated
>>>>speed limit. Apparently, Toronto and Ottawa's speed zones have already been
>>>>digitally mapped.
>>>
>>>That's not only stupid, it's criminally, negligently dangerous.
>>>
>>>If the speed limit is 50 and some moron wants to drive 45, how are you
>>>going to safely accelerate and pass if your car stops accelerating at
>>>50 (but the bozo has suddenly decided he likes 49).  I see head-on
>>>collisions coming.  And anyone having one should sue the pants off the
>>>DOT for wrongful death.
>>
>>I thought there might have been similar lawsuits when the Quebecois made it
>>mandatory to have French-only traffic signs.
>>
> 
> There have been countless lawsuits re French only, only to have Quebec
> invoke the "not withstanding clause" rendering all such suits void.
> 

I still can't help remembering stories from the early days of airbus. 
Unlike Boing, Airbus controls are not directly connected and are 
computer moderated.  When a bit of weather would push the plane past 
it's flight tolerances, the control computer would not let the pilot 
push the plane back, because that would be out of spec for the plane.

Why do people have to die because governments are stupid?

     -- Alma