Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
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Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
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Re: Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
#2A number of years back I had a rental car (in Arizona possibly) that had a speed limiter that was at the speed limit--or just above--as I recall and it was incredibly annoying.
Re: Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
#3Just another data point for the eventual "EU social credit score"
Re: Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
#4A number of years back I had a rental car (in Arizona possibly) that had a speed limiter that was at the speed limit--or just above--as I recall and it was incredibly annoying.
What was annoying about it?
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#5While it can be overridden, hopefully this saves many lives. We limit speeds on scooters and e bikes so cars are only fair
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#6Is there actual data that these make driving safe?
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#7Seems misleading for the headline to call this a "speed limiter", since depending on the implementation it either doesn't affect the car's speed at all, or slows it down in an immediately overrideable way. So there is no actual limit on the car's speed.
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#8Re: Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
#9This is one example of legislation that mandates fantasy tech that doesn't exist. You'd think that something as simple as speed limiter should be very easy to implement, and it couldn't be further from the truth - watch any review of a car with this tech and every reviewer will complain that it's not the presence of the system that's the problem, it's the fact that it constantly gets the speed limit wrong. Either reading the wrong signs(from parallel streets or signs which have been vandalized and moved facing the wrong way, or literally just reading the speed incorrectly) or getting the GPS speed wrong, or when on a private road defaulting to 20mph so beeping at you when driving in your own driveway.
Generally personally I actually think this is a potentially good thing - but the implementation is universally flawed, across every brand, every model. Now the selling point is whether the car has a shortcut button on the dash to disable this system.
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#10Leaving aside the myriad political & economic implications of this, my VW's navigation quite frequently thinks I'm on a different road, or it misses a speed limit sign, etc. It's bad enough when it jerks the wheel a little because it got confused by an off-ramp, or slams on the brakes in the parking lot because someone is walking a mere 30 yards behind me, but boy if my car started dropping speed to 35 because it confused the freeway with the frontage road I'd be pretty mad.