I hate this. If you want the car to drive itself, push for that. These flakey, half-way measures are the worst of both worlds.
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#22I object to driving any car with a built-in GPS or an internet connection, on basic privacy grounds. It amazes me how many advocacy groups and organizations [edit: and bicycle fans right here on HN!] are willing to completely demolish essential rights like privacy and freedom of movement, in the name of preventing speeding accidents.
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#23> 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...
Negative acceleration is still acceleration.
Refer to the brake as "the accelerator" and see how that goes for you.
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#26How 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.
Over time this should result in speed limits adjusting to how fast people actually drive, rather than it always being assumed that people drive faster by 10 mph or whatever.
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#27Gonna be a nice aftermarket for mods to disable this garbage bullshit
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#28"No one needs..."
And this is how the frog boils slowly. You have to push back when others try to decide what you need.
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#29There are valid reasons for exceeding the speed limit
Name two
Passing a slow car (driving below the limit) on two lane undivided highway. You could pass them at the speed limit, but its safer to just speed up while passing the car and then reduce your speed when you are back in your lane.
I had to do this multiple times passing RVs while on a road trip this weekend.
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#30There are valid reasons for exceeding the speed limit
A _vast_ majority of exceeding the speed limit is not done for valid reasons.
I'd argue that it's almost never correct to drive the speed limit. In the US at least they are almost universally slower than the natural speed of the road by 5-10 mph and everyone speeds a bit all the time.