The EU Commission wants intelligent transport systems and is floating the idea at Own Initiative level in the Euro Parliament and on our radio’s and TV’s. ITS means your car will have a computer installed which (for now) offers you choice of an ‘advisory’ system giving you a smiley face when you speed, and a ‘voluntary’ system (note the word – it means it’s not compulsory – yet!) which takes control of the speed of your car away from you. But what happens if you need to speed up to avoid an accident?
ITS will also include centrally controlled route finding, electronic road signs, and driver identification. The aim is to reduce road transport to the status of a train and have offenders obliged to turn themselves in for say smoking or eating at the wheel or making a mobile phone call without a hands free set. Yes it’s rightly illegal and its dangerous when you are in motion but what if you are stuck in a traffic jam?
ITS could even shut down you car and make you walk to limit congestion. It will allegedly reduce road accidents but how many State sponsored computer systems do you know that actually work? UKIP is against EU control freakery and for the freedom of the road. I myself, as a regular user of public transport, do not want motorists reduced to joining me on our train and tube system, they are overcrowded and expensive enough thank you and if I wasn’t at the Euro Parliament in Brussels such a lot I would be buying a car.
Monday, 11 May 2009
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