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There needs to be a Posted Limit Advisor to Your (parents) Municipal Authorities Tabloid Excluded Speed limit to Vehicle data monitoring and verbal annunciation of speeds of over 5 mph over limit.  This could be from signs near school zones during school hours and at notorious high hazard intersections and even bus stops on blind hills. This vehicle data base should be password locked to allow parents of young drivers to monitor and reset or change the set points of additional monitoring such as a parent could program it to “call home” if > 20 mph over posted limit is reached.  This call home feature would be separate from the V2V of this Connected Vehicle Challenge and achieved via phone system already available in the vehicle.  Ideally this would have a silence feature to prevent the child from interrupting the call and acting like he or she was about to call anyway.  Also a feature that disallows a child from tying up the line so it couldn’t call home.  In other words it could be set to terminate any ongoing calls to initiate this priority cell phone or Bluetooth.   Assumptions: The American people prize highly their freedom of speech, privacy and expression and have been noted to be opposed to or to resist acceptance of any infringement of their lives and daily practices being observed and recorded by government entities.  Therefore I would like to advocate a law that would state that the V-2-V communication i.e. VBB, Vehicle Black Box, information not be admissible as “direct, hard evidence in municipal traffic court or the like” but in some cases the information stored in the VBB may be used to point investigators in the right direction, but only other hard evidence may be used in municipal court proceedings. A case in point may be:  If vehicles have a vehicle to speed limit sign readings and annunciation or controls or over-rides, then this info may not be used in traffic court, but data may be used to obtain statistics on where people are speeding or for traffic bottlenecking information, i.e. rush hour; wreck on freeway; or slick and icy road indication.