When Dinside – a Norwegian consumer website that mainly covers cars, technology, housing and personal finance – writes about a “new EU requirement” that applies to all new cars, they are in reality describing how the EEA Agreement’s Annex II functions as a supranational law transmitter.
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has no power to change the vehicle regulations to protect Norwegian motorists’ privacy.
EEA law’s requirement of uniformity in the internal market means that when the EU adopts the GSR2 regulation, Norwegian authorities have a full duty of loyalty to introduce it blindly. As the article in Dinside illuminates, this has sneaked in in two stages.
From July 2024 it applied to completely new car models, but from 7 July 2026 the trap snaps shut irrevocably for absolutely all newly registered cars – including passenger cars, lorries, vans and buses.
The article mentions that the system can detect if you are tired, and that some cars can even take over control, steer to the side and stop the car automatically.
The EU regulation does not require that the car shall take over control, swerve to the side and stop automatically in this phase. The regulation only requires that the system shall warn the driver with sound and light. But car manufacturers (such as Tesla and Volvo) are already installing functions (such as automatic emergency braking and lane keeping) that technically can stop the car if the driver is unconscious.
It is thus the car manufacturers’ technology that makes this possible, not a direct requirement from the EU – yet.
That car manufacturers such as Tesla and Volvo are already installing this technology is, however, not a coincidental whim. It is because they know exactly what is on the drawing board in the EU, and they rig the cars for the next updates. This follows exactly the same pattern that we have seen in other areas in the EEA debate.
The EU uses a two-stage strategy to introduce supranational control:
Stage 1:
- Build the infrastructure (what we see now)
- First the EU adopts laws (such as the GSR2 regulation) that require car manufacturers to install the physical and digital rigging – the cameras, sensors, internet connection and the automatic braking systems. Officially this is sold as “road safety” and “driver assistance”.
- The manufacturers install functions such as automatic emergency braking and lane keeping because they must fulfil the EU’s requirements that the car shall be able to intervene if you cross a yellow line without indicating.
Stage 2:
- Move the control (what is coming on the drawing board)
- When 100 per cent of the car fleet has cameras that monitor your face, and data systems that have access to the steering wheel and brakes, it is only a stroke of the pen of a new EU regulation that is needed to change the software.
The EU’s long-term goal is “Vision Zero” (zero killed in traffic by 2050) and completely autonomous (self-driving) vehicles. To reach this goal the following logic lies on the drawing board: Man is considered the biggest risk factor in traffic.
The strategy is gradually to move the legal and practical disposal right over the vehicle away from the driver and over to the car’s computer. What starts as a “warning” (sound and light), becomes in the next phase an active action.
If the car’s camera detects that you are not looking at the road, or if the car’s GPS sees that you are driving into a “climate zone” or “smart city” without permission, the algorithms will have the power to override you. Nothing happens piecemeal by coincidence.
The EU does not require this technology so that you shall have it more comfortable. They require it because the car is to be integrated into the large, digital network. When car manufacturers rig the cars to be able to take over control and stop by themselves, they are preparing for the day the EU makes precisely overriding a legal requirement.
It is exactly the same pattern as with electricity: First we got the AMS meters “for easier reading”, now comes the digitalisation to control our consumption. First we get car cameras “to beep when we are tired”, in the next phase the algorithm takes over the steering wheel.
It is a sliding transition where man is gradually removed from the controls. You own the car, but the law has decided that you no longer have the real disposal right over it.
The rigging for road pricing and the Data Act is complete.
The Dinside article confirms that the cars are equipped with constant internet connection, sensors and cameras that monitor your face every single second.
It is here the frightening connection occurs.
Data Act:
Through this EU regulation the state and supranational bodies have the legal basis to demand these driving data handed over from the car manufacturers.
The kilometre charge:
The camera and the built-in GPS in the car is the perfect digital rigging that the Tax Commission needs to collect its proposed kilometre charge for both passenger cars and lorries.
The data are collected in real time, linked to your Digital Identity Wallet, and the charge is deducted automatically.
The Dinside article shows black on white that the private car has gone from being a symbol of personal freedom, to becoming a monitored, digital cell.
It is a direct line from EU legal acts to the camera filming you in your own car.
It is no longer a future theory; the infrastructure for the digitalised control society is fully mounted and is rolling out on Norwegian roads right now.