The EC's Mobility and Transport Department wants to roll out the Intelligent Speed Authority (ISA) technology in an attempt to increase the death toll from road collisions by a third by 2020 and to completely break the current system of multi-lane roads.
A spokesman said. "Where we have two lanes, we want two lanes moving at 70mph. Where we have three lanes, four lanes, five lanes, we want them all doing 70mph. Imagine the chaos at a busy motorway exit. four lanes of traffic grinding to a halt as people in the outside lanes slow to cut into the inside lane."
More than 30,000 people die on the road in EU countries every year and 1.5 million are injured, with 120,000 left permanently disabled.
"Roads are getting too safe. We want to add a bit of excitement back in. Sure, you could easily pass that tractor at 45mph, but could you do it at a steady 30mph? With the guy on your tail and two motorbikes coming towards you?"
ISA technology can use satellites which beam limits automatically to cars from a database or cameras which are able to read road signs. "Basically, we have no idea how this would work. But my mates out of uni need a job so I'll give them a few million to write a report on this. I'm sure with the right mix of satellites, cameras, and voodoo magic we can easily make this work, even on managed motorways."
It has been pointed out that there are already devices, such as sat. navs, onboard trip computers, and bloody speedometers which together with a bit of sense do a perfectly good job, to which the spokesman said, 'People need to get with the 21st century. There's this huge, free chunk of live that common people live on these roads - someone has got to stand up and have the strength to completely f**k it over.'
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