There are valid reasons for exceeding the speed limit
Name two
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New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
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Re: New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
#32Re: New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But if new cars were incapable of exceeding the limit, that wouldn't be true for long.
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#34I 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.
GPS is one-way, the satellites just broadcast their time signals and have no way of tracking you.
GPS & internet, on the other hand, is a great combo for tracking people.
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#36They'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.
You have too much faith. My predicted path is they can get the cars to report on themselves or each other and automate the fines.
Re: New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
#37I wonder sometimes if we live in extraordinarily tribal times
Re: New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
#38How 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.
You either drive dangerously slow (people too eager to overtake you is a security risk) or find a way to disable it.
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#39So 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.
Sounds like having the theoretical ability to disobey those stops and drive super-fast through them will buy you very little. That's a kind of freedom you only get to exercise once in your life.
Re: New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
#40There is absolutely no reason any road car should be able to (consistently) drive faster than ~150km/h
When Mt Saint Helens erupted there was an account from a survivor who raced away at 100mph, passing a car traveling at 80mph and seeing the slower car disappear into the ash cloud with little chance of surviving. Even in in the most extreme events your proposed limit is adequate.
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