Not that you'll be shocked to hear this, but here it is:

They – our Safety Overlords – now admit they intend to use Speed Limit Assistance "technology" to prevent us from driving faster than whatever the speed limit is, using in-car GPS, 5G and other such features that have been sold to the sheep as conveniences.

This "assistance" is being made acceptable one step at a time, something like getting to first base on a date; i.e., that's the the way you get to second and then third. With, of course, one important difference – that of consent. This "assistance" stuff is coercive and it's also hugely manipulative. Why can't these freaks ever be honest about their intentions? Well, we all know why. If they did that, it'd be harder to get to third base.

Hence "assistance."

It sounds so helpful, doesn't it? Much better than control. Boy Scouts assist old ladies across the street. We assist those in need.

The "assistance" we're talking about is nothing of the sort. In the first place because we don't need it and in the second, because most of us not only didn't ask for it – we actively do not want it. There is something outrageously insulting about "assisting" people who don't need it. About pushing such "assistance" on everyone. Imagine someone pushing a walker or cane on you – even though you've got no problem walking un-assisted. An earthier and more-to-the-point (as regards the insulting part) would be someone pushing Depends on you when you're not someone who has trouble controlling their "emissions." Imagine going shopping and the store's help steering you toward the Depends aisle. Better yet, the help putting a box of Depends in your cart at the checkout.

You'd probably feel the urge to bash them in the teeth.

This is the kind of "assistance" we're talking about. It is abuse of language to call it that. It is of a piece with the abuse of language embodied in the related term, "seat belt reminder."  No, it isn't. A reminder would chime once or twice – you know, to remind you to buckle up, in case you forgot to. The "reminder" that is installed in all new vehicles does not stop pestering you to "buckle up" until you do (or until you buckle the got-damned thing and sit on it). In other words, it is a low-grade harassment for not "buckling up." It has as much to do with "reminding" as "assistance" has to do with assisting.