alt Hacker NewsI think my concern is that we are being lied to.
My opinion is irrelevent as I do not live in Virginia and am not a lawmaker, but I would want this to be tied to a vehicle telematic privacy bill that restricted how cars use telemetry data and gives consumers rights to control what is logged and who sees it and who it can be sold to.
Until we own the data our cars generate, I don't want active speed and acceleration constraint software for "chronic criminals" because inevitably it will be mandatory on all cars and remotely controllable by law enforcement.
The problem is even if you got the legislature to pass that privacy bill (they never would, at least not without 1,000 exemptions that every large company would qualify for multiple times over), it would just get repealed a year or two later with little fanfare.
The only answer is to make this kind of thing illegal at the level of the state constitution and/or federal case law, at least until we bring back tarring and feathering government officials who violate their oaths.