You can bet this won't stop with just teens

raymondo · #1 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008, 06:44 PM

Ford feature will let parents set limits for teens- Yahoo! Autos Article Page

VWA2MKII · #2 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008, 06:51 PM

Someday, we will never be able to drive our own vehicles...

The Nissan GT-R, and among many other cars have a "Black Box" that lets the dealership/Nissan monitor your driving habbits... this is scary when it comes down to warranties for the consumer.

raymondo · #3 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008, 06:58 PM

I've been asking why street cars are built to do over 80 MPH for some time now. When you think about it, kind of stupid in this safety first society. All the monitoring crap they put on cars today, it's just inevitable they will cap them all.

key03 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by VWA2MKII

Someday, we will never be able to drive our own vehicles...

The Nissan GT-R, and among many other cars have a "Black Box" that lets the dealership/Nissan monitor your driving habbits... this is scary when it comes down to warranties for the consumer.

The technology in the GT-R also allows it to remove the limiters when the NAVI knows it has entered the grounds of a competition track. That's pretty cool right there

Kristian · #5 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008, 08:05 PM

I don't like the idea of the GTR limiting how fast someone could drive

key03 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008, 08:12 PM

When you hit a race track the car allows you to drive it as fast as your heart desires and your skill allows for....

raymondo · #7 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by key03

When you hit a race track the car allows you to drive it as fast as your heart desires and your skill allows for....

Some how I don't get excited about overriding a feature that should never be there in the first place. Nothing personal, but some people get so excited about new technology that they don't even see the evil behind it which is to increase surveillance creep and take your freedoms away. All in the name of decreasing insurance premiums, or to save lives, or to protect us from terrorism. etc. Sounds good on the surface....It's not.

Russk · #8 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by raymondo

Some how I don't get excited about overriding a feature that should never be there in the first place. Nothing personal, but some people get so excited about new technology that they don't even see the evil behind it which is to increase surveillance creep and take your freedoms away. All in the name of decreasing insurance premiums, or to save lives, or to protect us from terrorism. etc. Sounds good on the surface....It's not.

Absolutely correct! What comes next?

taurean bull · #9 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by raymondo

they don't even see the evil behind it which is to increase surveillance creep and take your freedoms away. All in the name of decreasing insurance premiums, or to save lives, or to protect us from terrorism. etc. Sounds good on the surface....It's not.

AMEN RAY!!!!! Little known fact, the black box was in the first Mitsu Evo they brought to the states also so the dealers could prove they weren't liable for warranty work on that little crapbucket of a car as owners took them to the track. Don't know if it was in anything before that.

I Hate Ferrari · #10 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008, 12:19 PM

Raymondo, Taurean, Russ

You guys are right on. It is amazing how people embrace ideas and technology designed for the sole purpose of taking away their freedoms. Even stranger is seeing people who clearly understand this, and yet embrace virtually identical ideas wholeheartedly in different contexts.

I have heard there is something similar on the Bugatti. If I recall it relates the driving information of the day back to HQ after it is parked/turned off. Does anyone know more about this?

Pretty soon we'll need lead-lined garages... LOL!

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