NC looks at speed limiters for repeat offenders | Hour 3

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North Carolina lawmakers are considering allowing the use of technology that would prevent speeding by people who have proven incapable of driving the speed limit on their own. Michael whatley. Okay, So think of it like those what do they call them, breathalyzer locks or ignition locks or whatever they are for people who are caught, you know, DUI multiple times, and you then have to, like in order to get into your or to start the car, you got to blow into this tube and then it like registers your blood alcohol content level, and if it's too high, then the car doesn't start. Right, the same concept, except your car would still start, it would still drive. However, it would be like a restrictor plate in Nascar. It would not allow you, it would not allow you to go above the speed limit on a particular road, which like I remember when well, first off, I remember having to use maps, like actual physical paper maps, which nobody uses anymore. However, you should always keep a copy of some maps, you know, because you never know. In the zombie apocalypse, you know, your GPS isn't gonna work right, so you're gonna need like the paper maps. So anyway, this technology they're talking about is in House Bill eleven ninety nine. It would require drivers who lose their license because of repeated speeding tickets or similar traffic violations. It would acquire those drivers to equip their car, truck, or motorcycle with a device that would prevent it from going over the speed limit. And again, like I'm old enough to remember when the GPS like on your Google Maps or map quest or not map Quest, but whatever the is that what they use in It's like I have Google Maps because I want Google to know all of my. Data wherever I am. But no, there's what's the one that's in cars like whatever, the ones that come built into the vehicles. Yeah, so whatever, So like they now know what the speed limits are like when I'm when I'm looking at my phone, that's you know, uh in my little holder on the dashboard there, and I'm following the map and it'll show me the speed limit of the road I'm on, and sometimes it's not accurate, but like nowadays it's pretty accurate all the time. It used to not be, but now it is. So I guess it was like a data input thing where eventually they finally collected all the data from all of the dots all over the country and so now it's all in there and now they know, you know, they're measuring traffic speeds and that sort of thing to know where the slowdowns are occurring, which is super helpful. If you're on the road and you got the map up and you're like, oh, I see a big slowdown coming up ahead. Very helpful. Right, you can take a detour go around it, and it'll it'll do that for you. So if a little speed limit. Icon says fifty five, then you're not going to be allowed to go over the fifty five. Drivers who have repeat speeding tickets or similar infractions would need to have their device in the vehicle for one year as a condition of getting their license back. Dates are beginning to embrace what's called Intelligent Speed assistance or ISSA, or as I call it ISSA in a law as a part of law enforcement. This summer, Virginia will begin to require ISSA use by people convicted of reckless driving over one hundred miles an hour. Okay, unless you're fleeing from a life threatening interaction on the road, right, one hundred miles an hour. That's really fast. You know, that's really fast. But I do see a problem with this because if let's say the speed limit is like it is on I seventy seven, it's fifty five, and let's say I need to speed up because I've got some jerk bragging behind me in my blind spot. But I know he's there because I know how to check my blind spots. I can give you this tip. By the way. You can either do a look over your shoulder and you'll see the car. Or you can look in your side view mirror. Oh but Pete, he's in your blind spot. You won't see him in the side view mirror. That's true. But if you lean forward just about like six inches, just lean forward a little bit, then you'll see him. So that's a really good way to check your blind spots. Or there's another way. Look in your rear view mirror and just move your head to the right about six inches and then you'll see him right six inches and you'll see you're both your blind spots either direction right, So you can do that. Now. I've had people and as somebody told me this, I think a caller told me this one time, or a texter, because I do not understand why people drive in other people's blind spots. I don't get that it's the most dangerous place for you to be. And they just like they'll zoom up behind me and then sit in the blind spot, like why are you driving so fast to catch up to me, to just hang out in my blind spot. And I was told that it's people who are they're pacing because they don't want to because they're probably looking at their phones and they're not looking at their speedometer, and so they want to pace with somebody so they can kind of be on their phone and see the car, and so they just kind of like out of their peripheral vision they see the car. So when somebody does that to me, I either slow down like abruptly, I mean safely if there's nobody behind me, you know, but I'll you know, I'm usually on cruise controls. I'll turn that thing off and I'll start slowing down and I let them get ahead of me. Or I'll i'll guess it, I'll gun it and I'll zoom up ahead. I'm not going one hundred miles of when I'm doing. I'm just saying I go faster and then I watch to see what they do if they zoom up to get back into my blind spot. Okay, well, now like I'm gonna I'm gonna get on the brakes, I'm gonna let you get in front of me, and then I'm gonna get behind you, and I'm gonna just drive drive behind you because I'm gonna make sure that, like, you're not endangering my life, because that's how I view everybody on the road. Every person that is around me in a vehicle on the road, I think is trying to kill me actively. So that's how I stay safe. So that's like, I don't like the idea of putting this kind of a regulator on the vehicles because sometimes you might need to actually speed in order to avert disaster. See, so I'm not I don't think I'm on board with this. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generation. They help us process the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. 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So last hour talked about the license plate scanners, so there's some texts that are still in on that, but also the idea of in car devices that will limit your speed basically restrict plates restrictor plate racing. Okay, so you're not going to be able to speed. The way this thing works is they plug it in. It's an ISA system. It uses GPS to track the car and displays the speed limit for that section of road on a small box attached to the dashboard. The cable that runs from the gas pedal to the engine is rerouted through that device. One of the companies that makes these ISA systems is called Life Saver. Sorry life Safer because Life Saver is already copyrighted, trademarked. The request for acceleration goes from the pedal to the device. The device does the calculations, where are they, what speed are they allowed to go? How much more time before they get there? And then it sends a mid to fight signal back to the car. The signal prevents the car from topping the speed limit. Okay, so like you would not be able to look. I was. I don't remember who's it may have been a rental and it had one of those quote lane assists. I hated it. Hated it because it sees, you know, a car, you know that's like twenty feet behind you, and then you go to, you know, make a lane change in front of that car, and then it like fights you, and the steering wheel starts like rumbling and starts trying to drag you back. Like what if I'm trying to avoid something that's gonna kill me and I have to get in front of that guy. You know, now I'm fighting my own car. Like, I don't like it. I did not like it one bit. Pr from Joco says, I totally agree with you about the dirty thirty tags. I would like to hear the SBI and local law enforcement commit to cracking down on a crap seems obvious. But if they don't have a legal tag, then they definitely don't have insurance, which is why rates are skyrocketing. Get these near do wells off our streets. That is a word that is not used nearly enough, near do wells. iHeart is working just fine. Thank you for that, Jeff says. Street and security cameras helped to track down the the murderer Luigi Mangioni, although there are a scary number of folks that are upset about that too. Yes, Alexa is working. Thank you. Ron Todd says, I just thought I would text too, like everybody else. I don't have a particular point. That's fair. That's fair. You're always funny. Pete, thank you, Dan, I appreciate that. Put your signal on at eleven ten am. Yeah. I don't think we can just flip a switch like that. It takes a lot more than I actually even thought it would. It ties in, especially with some of the text you're receiving. Oh this is us versus Jones. Chuck Schumer unplugged the radio station. It's probably a threat to democracy. They don't need road cameras to track you cell phones. Get that done. Yep. Getting bailed out somewhere you never go by easy pass is awesome. Getting bailed out some. Yeah, well, I mean actually other thing too, Like you're driving around, you know, in a state that you've not been in, and your GPS tells you to go take some route and the next thing, you're on a toll road. You know. Roseanne says, I owe always stream your show on my phone. You're coming in loud and clears, so you do have one live listener. Thank you, Roseanne. PSU should be syndicated. The rest of the country needs to hear you. You know, I've been saying that to my wife for a very long time. Jeff says, it's the four pronged plug. Hush your mouth. We are not your pores, We're not in your um pete. Nobody can argue with you about infringement on privacy is because there is no argument. Yeah no, that's but that's why I throw it out there, like I'm open to hearing the argument. I just haven't heard it. And everybody that you know is that has been texting about it. They're expressing those same concerns that I would have, and we all express about the Second Amendment, which is like the slippery slope. When you create the registry of the guns, then that's used against the citizenry, the law abiding citizenry, by a tyrannical government and all of that. I am open to that argument, but the privacy argument doesn't make any sense. So when these Democrat town councils are saying we're not going to participate because of, you know, privacy concerns, but they never tell you what the privacy concern is. Yes, the antenna is down, skinny pete, My privacy concerns are private. It's fair. Did you feed the mice? No, they are hamsters on the wheel that make the power go. I give up. I want a chip on my hand and forehead. What could go wrong? See, now, that's not I'm not advocating. That a simple barcode tattoo will suffice. We're not. We don't need to implant chips. We're not animals. Okay, we're not. We're not like dogs and cats. Okay, we could just get the tattoos on the back, right on the back of the neck, you know, like hit Man. The technology already exists. It's called a moped for the speed. I remember the first time I heard somebody reference that when I was in college. I came down here and somebody was talking about their uncle who had multiple DUIs and he was driving, so he was forced to drive a liquor sickle. It's the first time I'd ever heard that. Term name any program the government hasn't completely screwed up, had hacked or completely bankrupted. Don't you think we have much bigger issues to spend our tax dollars on? Well, I mean so, like, I don't know. I think law enforcement is a core function of government. So that's from Michael. So no, if you want to say, take money out of something else and spend it on this, okay, sure, but no, I mean law enforcement is like again, that's the reason why we instituted a government is to provide for the common defense. That's the point. And at the state and local level that means police and fire, but not necessarily fire always. But I mean that's the that's the that's the point of government. All of the other stuff. It does not so much. Seems like Gary, not my fault, McFadden sabotaged your signal. I don't. I don't think he I don't think he can do that. Get on the text message or the app and you will hear it. Better to space out if you need to dodge debris. Debris, bad recks happen in clusters. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, because if you if everybody, I mean, think about it, if you're surrounded by a whole bunch of people that have these restrictor plates on them because they've all been speeding all the time, they repeat offenders and stuff, reckless drivers, and now everybody's got these ISA things on them, and now you're all clustered up right, I mean, that's Isn't that what killed Dale? I think? So not for nothing, people, I've been talking this whole time. Okay, so if I'm told the radio signal is now back up and don hazza huzza. However, I have been talking the whole time. So if you missed all of the brilliant content, and it was brilliant, you can go get the podcast at the peat pod. And now that you can hear me, I can tell you you probably want to download the WBT app because what we are told, the information that we have received, was that there was a power outage in the area where our transmitter is located, and the backup generator that was supposed to kick. On apparently did not for some reason. It's all very technical. I don't want to bore you with the details, but that's why we got knocked off. That has apparently been remedied. I am seeing. From the text line that we are back up and running, so thank you. That really accounted for the vast majority of the texts that I have been receiving throughout the last almost two hours, so I'm glad it could only be my show that was affected on the FM stick. I just want that noted during my contract negotiations when we're discussing ratings, that I've been knocked off air for two hours. But you can get you can get the podcast. Go to the peatpod dot com and go back and listen to the brilliant content from the text line. I agree with you, Pete. Sometimes you have to speed to avoid a crash. Maybe we could have a device that prevents pickup trucks from Tennessee from driving fifty in the left lane on the highways, or maybe one that turns on your headlights in the rain if you are a gray car. That I mean, we can dream we can dream. I believe they actually teach Tennessee drivers to drive in the left lane under the speed limit. I think it is a state law there. It really is the. Only thing I can I can I can conjure up in my head as to why, like virtually every time I come across a Tennessee driver, they are in the left lane on the interstate, going like at least five miles an hour below the speed limit. Yes, Kenny, we've been off air. Just back on radio. Signal back okay, Yes, we are back. We are back on the radio, the WBT app working, fine FM is back. Okay. I think everybody's telling me that it's back. Oh the hellion says, yes, I could not type liquor sickle fast enough. Oh no, now we're gone again. Oh no, iheartswork. We're back on for now to do we are? So? You are so good, Pete and staff, you need to go national. I think the tattooed barcode thing is a great idea, says Danny. But alas all those black helicopter conspiracy type theorists will think that the tattoo artists with the gauges, with the gauges in their ears and dermals in their faces are in on the fix, and they'll believe they're using a special ink that the toll pass readers will pick up automatically and then track them every where all their movements. Oh, what a tangled web we weave. Look, that's the thing, Like, you don't need the bar codes, even we're all willingly walking around with a barcode in our pockets. Signals back up. Okay, that's too much text. I cannot read all of that. I mean, I can read it. I'm not illiterate. Okay, but it's just too I'm downloading the easy pass app, says tim Oteo. Apparently the Babylon b listens to your show too, really, Trump, Oh headline faux pa. Trump gifts President g with pot of honey from the White House behind. Oh my goodness, that's oh wait, hang on, you got to finish the symbol crash. All right, let's talk about Trump's visit to Winnie the Pooh. I don't know what to make of this thing yet, and I don't really trust a lot of people's reactions because look, I'm just gonna throw this out there. I don't think that the president of the United States or the tri COM leader. I don't think they're going to tell us everything they talked about. I just don't think they're going to tell us. And I don't think that the statements they put out are going to be really hyper specific about really anything. They're gonna kind of leave it nebulous, you know. And even if they do say stuff, stuff changes and so. And also again rule number one with Kamis is they lie. So anything this guy tells us, like, I'm not believing it. So like everybody wants to like read into all of this stuff, but I'm you know. Now, According to Marco Rubio, Jijenping declared that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and must give up claims of sovereignty over international waters. Good to know. Maybe Jijenping can give the NEPO baby Tola a call and tell him, and because he's probably dead, also tell the IRGC leader Ahmad Vahiti. Maybe let Vahedi in on that. G focused more on China's interests closer to home, which may have implications for what the US does next. Rubio told NBC the Chrainese side said they are not in favor of militarizing the Strait of Hormuz, and they're not in favor of a tolling system, and that's our position too. Now Ed Morrissey points out that's probably not what Iran wanted to hear from their quote unquote ally but again CHI com lies, IRGC lies. So don't know. I guess we'll find out this weekend if the bombing starts up again in Iran, which I kind of feel like probably should happen, because guys, I'm getting the feeling that the Iranians are not actually negotiating in good faith. I know, I know, it's just a gut feeling that I've got. I'm gonna ask Brett Winnable about this in a moment, I think. And now for a little segment we like to call pregaming with Brett Winterble. Brett Winterble, how are you? I'm great? How are you? I am great as well? Good? It's Friday, Yes, And so just to state the obvious there, all right, So right before the break in the last segment, I finally was able to tear myself away from the traffic related topics and talk to something, talk about something that was a little bit less weighty, like the big meeting between Donald Trump along with like every CEO and tech giant of the world, with Winnie the Pooh over in communists China. So do you all right? So, first off, when you are monitoring this and you're reading these stories and like people are commenting on this stuff, like what's your level of confidence in what you are hearing being what actually was discussed? Like, what's your level of confidence that we were actually hearing real stuff? I mean, because like what it was like three days? Right, that was like a three day trip, maybe three and a half days or something like that, right, Yeah, so they had to get a bunch of stuff crammed in there. Obviously, if the chicoms are going to abide by the deal that they offered, which was the two hundred Boeing jets. That's really cool. I think they're going to end up stiffen. Us probably, But there are comedies. They chicoms do it all the time. They do it all the. Dine and dash, and that's it. So I do. I look at this and I think it's important that Trump's spoke to him, and it was important that he spoke to Trump because you know, these are the two big bag bad dudes on the block and that's what you have to kind of it's good to see. Him face to face. Yeah, no, I definitely think there's value to it. They and Trump pointed this out that like they've known each other, they've they've had relations for like over a decade now, right, that's longer just because of the nature of the split presidencies, right, the two terms. So they're you know, they've got probably the longest working relationship between two presidents, right, that our countries have ever had. And remember at mar. A Lago, he had Shijinping when they capped uh solo money. Wasn't that Solomoni or no, No, it was when they when they hit the uh, the Russians, when we hit the Russians way back in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. M and so Donald Trump likes to show muscle with weaponry, and I think it was this. This was this was the same sort of a thing. Do you think something's coming, yep, I think it's coming, probably tomorrow. Do you think he lands first or does he does? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he'll be, he'll be. He doesn't want to do it from the air. He's gonna he's going to be on China time. So like he's going to be a wide awake and it's and he's probably talking except for. One thing though, You're we're talking about hitting Iran hitting or again right restarteday af to. I mean, it's right. I don't understand at this point why we're still in a quote unquote cease fire. What about the I mean the endangered Mullah. I mean we don't have we've still not seen it from. Him, right, the Mulla. Yeah, the NEPO baby told oh. That is such a good slogan. Yeah. Yeah, like I don't believe. I don't believe he's alive. I mean, I'm not going to be surprised if it turns out he is a lie or GC probably killed him, yeah, oh yeah, just didn't give him full medical attention necessary. They're just weekend at burning this guy there you go, right, really probably got a cardboard cutout of him just laying in a bed. You know. The very fact that like what I think it was a week ago, the president was demanding like a meeting with him and then put out a statement like oh I had a very good meeting with baby Tola, and it's like and then the IRGC comes out and they're like, no, you didn't. Right, Well, wait a minute, somebody's lying there. All of them are lying. Well, yes they're Islamo fascist, so of course, but like but like both of those stories cannot be true. It's just the same time you're saying the exact opposite. So I don't believe that the quote unquote civilian leadership has any access to the baby Tola at this point, and I think the IRGC is just running the operations, in which case then this is like what third or fourth level commanders that were left, right, So this Faihidi dude, he's uh, he was like like some fourth level guy and now he's in charge of everything, and I'm gonna want a limit and say, he may not know what he's doing completely absolutely right, So. Yeah, somebody's gonna know, but not everybody's gonna know. Yeah, that's the problem. And so it just seems to me like we've allowed this ceasefire to go on, maybe to get past the War. Powers Act thing. Good, that's a very good point, but also you're giving them time to move stuff around, which I'm sure we're we're monitoring, yep. But I think I think patience has probably run out. I think so too. I think that's what it is, and and it just just not to put too fine of a point on it. You know, they are going to have this over on the Mall in DC. They're gonna have the U Celebration of Christianity. Pete Heckseth is supposed to be giving a speech there, and President Trump, I think, is also going to be a part of that as well. So praying while the bomb's drunk. Or maybe in the aftermath of the bus. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.