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Intelligent Speed Adaptation - now there are a few words to conjure up all types of horror scenarios! Sudden spurts at T-junctions, sudden loss of power when overtaking, commuters shaving or filing their fingernails as they cruise along at a steady 70mph in the fast lane. You get the picture - lots of drivers going about their business but being controlled from on high.
I don't have a problem with vehicles set to do a maximum of 100mph, and am all for the roll-out of more variable speed limits to keep traffic flowing, but I do have a problem with Government governing speeds from on high when they cannot even demonstrate any capacity to govern the nation as a whole.
My views on technological control of speeds are consistent with my views on road charging. It simply will not work because this Government has singularly demonstrated, when it comes to the introduction of IT systems in whatever shape or form, a total and abject failure. Not only does it fail to meet its targets but it squanders shed-loads of money in the process.
At a time when financial prudence should be the order of the day, the very thoughts of the Government embarking on any such scheme any time in the short or medium-term future leaves me positively raging at the crass stupidity of this Government, which seems hell bent on driving the wheels off the UK wagon and seeing it drop off over the edge of a high financial cliff.
The only intelligent speed adaptation that needs to take place in the short to medium-term is judicious use of the right foot - not only to control speed but to eke out every drop of fuel to maximum effect.
As with the economy, we need to get back to basics. Liberal doses of practical intelligence are called for not more crass acronyms! Is ISA the new ISA I wonder?
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