IMHO you had it right the first time. This thing will be used as a compliance tool, and as a means of escalating violence or provoking violence where it didn't previously exist.

Um, somebody other than the people who caused the mob to form in the first place, I imagine.

I've never understood why this problem can't be solved by regulating the scrap dealers who buy the stolen metal. Here in Washington state, I can't even buy cold medicine without putting my name on a list, but I can show up at a scrap dealer with thousands of dollars' worth of unlikely-looking items that I have no way…

Interesting, thanks for the detailed picture. Almost sounds like the "See one, do one, teach one" methodology you hear about from overstressed med students, which might work OK if the students are up to the challenge, but not so much if they'll let any bozo into the school. I guess we'll have to wait for the next…

It's been pointed out that the reason the trucking industry gets monkeys for employees is that they pay peanuts. Why do you suppose the industry refuses to pay enough to attract and retain better drivers?

You wouldn't download a Belvedere!

Also, aftermarket. As a mid-career engineer I can already foresee what my retirement is going to look like: lots of reverse engineering and hacking to work around unobtainable PDK controllers and the like.

I'd join you in criticizing Elon Musk's business acumen, but I'm kinda busy with this land war in Asia right now, and then I need to see what the Sicilian guy at the door wants.

Dunno. Linus Torvalds might be a good person to ask (even though he's a Finn rather than a Swede or a Norwegian.)

Hint: You're already wealthier than 95% of the people who have ever lived.

Steinbeck, schmeinbeck. When people from socialist-leaning countries stop trying to break into the US, I'll be interested in what he has to say.

There's at least one good reason not to have anything to do with AAA:

Cool, just keep right except to pass and we won't have a problem.

Hint: Spend some time googling the phrase "85th Percentile Rule." Speed limits set by engineers will generally follow it, or come close to it. Speed limits set by politicians won't.

You seem to place an unusual amount of faith in a number on a sign at the side of the road that was put there by people who've never been within 100 miles of said road.

Then I'm sure it will be easy for you to come up with highway death rate statistics that demonstrate positive benefits associated with throwing people in the hoosegow for speeding. Right?

Cease and Desist order from the estate of Richard Wagner?

No kidding. Looks like a Soviet pay phone.

It's crazy for people who enjoy driving to reward this psychotic state by spending their money there. I don't understand it.