The government will simply diddle with the particulars.

And diddle us.

It will be the same with speed-limited cars, once those are fatwa'd here – as is now all-but-inevitable given they have just been fatwa'd there  – in Europe, where about a third of new cars sold here are made and so will be made with the same tech embedded in them and ready to go.

Think DRLs – the absurdly always-on headlights that almost all new cars have had since the '90s, when GM began installing them in all its new cars because some of them were built (or sold) in Canada, which required them.

It will be the same with Intelligent Speed Assist – the euphemism for the EU-mandated electronic nanny which will force cars – force drivers – to obey all speed limits.

But this raises a practical problem.

Speed limits are designed to collect "revenue" – via selectively applied "fines" (a euphemism for taxes) applied to drivers who ignore them. Which is almost every driver.