Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Who doesn't want to spend money their hard-earned money on a car that is controlled by a Big Brother-like, eye-in-the sky-monitoring-system that starts blaring an alarm, and then shuts off the car and won't allow you to use it?

Where do I sign up and who do I pay for the privilege?

 

Outlaw internal combustion engines if the consensus is that it creates a cost that is too onerous for others to justify the benefits (I don't think people will go for this, FWIW).

But if the consensus is that you are not going to do that, but instead regulate how people are supposed to use the car, I could completely understand punishing the behavior you want to regulate if you catch someone in the act. That is how the rule of law works. We shouldn't limit people's freedom on the rationale that you are going to prevent them from breaking the law. We live our lives. ... and if you get caught breaking a law, you are prosecuted.

But I find it scary when you try to control people (and their property) in that sort of way, preemtively.

It's totalitarianism, and history should have taught people that it's a barn door you never want to open. It won't be limited to just the stuff that you might argue is righteous and justified. Everyone thinks the thing they want to control about others is justified.

I don't want some state authority in my business, monitoring my life 24 hours a day. Nobody should.

 

You aren't catching someone in the act. You are monitoring everyone all the time to preemptively stop them from behaving the way you don't want -- it's Big Brother.

Let's say I just decide to take my car off the state-controlled GPS system. It's my car. I don't want someone else controlling it. In a free society, should that be a criminal act?

 

1) Because it's not your plane. You don't have to fly commercially if you don't like those rules.
2) Yes. You legally have no expectation of privacy in a public place (like a public road). They are not forcing you to put monitoring devices in your car to control you.

 

I don't want my car force fitted with some totalitarian state system monitoring me -- that tells someone els ehow I drive. ... and most importantly, WHERE I am going. If you want to give me a warning, put up a sign on the public road, same as there are signs telling me what the speed limit is.