Keep your old car as long as you can...

"But what if, after you survived the wreck, that same technology turned tattle-tale, and divulged to police or the insurance company that you were speeding or driving recklessly?

That's one dilemma confronting consumers, auto makers, safety regulators and medical professionals as they sort out the potential rewards and risks of increasingly sophisticated "telematics" technology available in new vehicles."

Well, just *maybe*, it might inspire more people to drive like they have something resembling brain matter in their skulls...?

It's one thing if you're going, say, 5 mph over the limit - you can get that happen from a good gust of wind, and it's seldom fussed over. But in cases where you get these idiots going 60mph in a 35mph residential zone ... well, sorry, but I have no sympathy for them. There have to be some sort of limits on the degree to which everyone else is supposed to pay for someone' recklessness or deliberately-stupid actions.

- KMK