There is absolutely no reason any road car should be able to (consistently) drive faster than ~150km/h
There absolutely are.
New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
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#12How well does this work in areas where almost every car is speeding? Especially since there would be a mix of older cars without the tech sharing the road.
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#13The governments will surely miss out on a lot of revenue if cars start preventing people from speeding.
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#14> When ISA detects the car is over the limit, it may induce visual and audible warnings, as well as haptic feedback through the steering wheel or throttle pedal, or it may begin accelerating the vehicle if no action is taken. I sure hope they mean decelerate...
A physicist wrote it. a=dv/dt
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#15"Just because something can be done with a computer does not mean it should be done."
- Richard Hamming
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#16They'll roll this back pretty quickly once it cuts into revenues
I predict that the politicians will, after much grumbling by the public, have the speed limits raised to reflect the speeds people actually want to drive. And then we'll have to endure a bunch of breathless hand wringing and concern feigning about how "it will be a bloodbath" from the usual suspects.
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#17There are valid reasons for exceeding the speed limit
A _vast_ majority of exceeding the speed limit is not done for valid reasons.
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#18So all cars will be susceptible to "phantom braking" due to a bug or worse? I really dislike this, and living in the third world I can already imagine fake road signs being used to decelerate and rob cars.
I live in a dictatorship where we have military road stops everywhere.
Screw these features.
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#19There are valid reasons for exceeding the speed limit
Name two
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#20Looks like the driver can disable the system, if the manufacturer allows. I'm sure popular "driver's cars" will offer this feature.
> While the law does recommend drivers be able to switch off ISA “when a driver experiences false warnings or inappropriate feedback as a result of inclement weather conditions, temporarily conflicting road markings in construction zones, or misleading, defective or missing road signs,” it doesn’t make it a requirement.