{"id":1851,"date":"2005-11-30T01:25:54","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T06:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/auto_brakes\/"},"modified":"2005-11-30T01:25:54","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T06:25:54","slug":"auto_brakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/auto_brakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Brakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming soon to <a title=\"The Globe and Mail: New spy in the sky puts brake on fast drivers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051128.wxsmartcars28\/BNStory\/National\/\">an automobile near you<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Transport Canada is road-testing cutting-edge devices that use global positioning satellite technology and a digital speed-limit map to know when a driver is speeding, and to try to make them stop.<br \/>\nWhen a driver hits a certain percentage above the posted speed limit, the device kicks in and makes it difficult to press the accelerator.<br \/>\nWhile the idea appeals to some road-safety experts, even the researcher in charge of the project admits many drivers &#8212; some of whom have shown fierce resistance to photo-radar and red-light cameras &#8212; may balk at the science-fiction scenario of a machine forcing them to apply the brakes.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are trying to assess the operational acceptance issues,&#8221; said Peter Burns, chief of ergonomics and crash avoidance with Transport Canada&#8217;s road safety directorate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Operational acceptance issues&#8221;&#8211;that&#8217;s a cute way of saying we&#8217;ll need to see a culture shift for these to be accepted.  I&#8217;m a relatively &#8220;slow&#8221; driver, and even I&#8217;m not too keen on the concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/auto_brakes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Auto Brakes\"><p>Coming soon to an automobile near you: But Transport Canada is road-testing cutting-edge devices that use global positioning satellite technology and a digital speed-limit map to know when a driver is speeding, and to try to make them stop. When a driver hits a certain percentage above the posted speed limit, the device kicks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}