Originally Posted by
remsav
Yeah we do have the technology to do that and safety wise it would be prudent, bigbrother. Blackbox for cars have been around for awhile now to measure driving behaviour and tracking via GPS, it wouldn't be too hard to add cruise control.
This is an article from 2003 about blackbox.
http://www.forbes.com/columnists/for.../0811/084.html
Of course the issues of personal freedom will be involved with a black box.
But I have to laugh. Years ago I programmed a GPS to record a drive to Disney Land from San Diego that my son was doing with his friends. I told him it was there, I told him why, and and I told him that I could tell if it was tampered with. (I was quite familiar with the function of the unit, having used it many times for tactical analysis of long distance sailing races.)
Sure enough, I caught him speeding... not just once, but for a long stretch... He was grounded for 1 month from, driving, for that.
The technology has been available for a long time.