Speed limiters in new cars
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What is known: On July 6, all new vehicles sold in Europe – including the UK – will be equipped with a speeder limiter as per new legal requirements to boost road safety. The new speed limit assist system “will become mandatory on new cars in 2022 uses a forward-facing camera mounted on the car and the vehicle’s satellite navigation system to identify the speed limit and, if the car is exceeding it, to restrict the fuel flowing to the engine until the vehicle is at the limit speed,” Link Here: https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co....anger-drivers/ |
Sounds terrible. Glad I don't live there and hope it doesn't make its way here any time soon.
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"Hey look here at my 1000 HP electric car!":3gears:
"Cool! "Too bad comes equipped with an onboard Kill switch and a speed limiter":mad2: |
My guess is here (and maybe too in Europe) the first ones to complain will be the local police jurisdictions as this will severely cut into the revenue stream if no one is able to speed anymore. They will somehow characterize this as a safety issue (not sure how that will happen). Failing this, they will just jack up the rates on everything else to compensate and will shamelessly state that it was always a farce that they claimed that the previous "safety" speeding ticket writing campaigns were all about revenue after all and that quotas really did exist.
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Does this remind anyone of the "55 Stay Alive" campaign in the 1970's when all of the speed limits were lowered and all of the speedos in new cars terminated at 85 mph?
What a dreary time period, but everything, EVERYTHING is cyclical, and I don't think anyone would have thought that 40 years later we'd have some new cars making 800hp. |
Absolutely. We exited the gold standard in 1971 and switched the world Reserve currency pegged to the value of a barrel of oil.
And “just like that”... THE 1970’s! Multiple oil shortages, gas lines and talk of “peak oil” to be followed by the coming ice age, then followed by global warming, which was switched to climate change when it became obvious that the earth was not statistically warming to match the gloom and doom. On the upside looks like old cars are going to be the “in” thing for a while:burnout: |
Frankly, I am surprised this hasn't already happened in the U.S. Not that I am a proponent. Just surprised.
What I expected was electronically limited to 85 mph (highest posted speed limit in the land). |
Sounds like an idea that would lead to more accidents as you're taking control away from the driver.
Another thing coming is part of the infrastructure bill that requires new cars in 2025 to have some sort of impaired driver protection. From what I read, it sounds like something that will scan your eyes to see if you're rapidly looking in different directions and disable the car if it thinks you're impaired. I could see that shutting you down in an emergency situation when you're trying to react to a bad situation. This "safety" stuff is getting more dangerous all the time. |
Hmm, how long can I make my old car continue to run? A couple hundred thousand, maybe more, or so new vehicles not sold because people don't want them and adopt this philosophy. What's that do the auto industry?
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I'm going to Italy for work this month, I'll ask the European folks what they think of this.
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Yes indeed! Take the the 2025 Kill switch for example: The kill switch, which is referred to as a safety device, must “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.” In other words, Big Brother will constantly be monitoring how you drive. If you do something the system has been programmed to recognize as driver impairment, your car could just shut off, which could be incredibly dangerous. |
A trucking friend shared this:
https://www.overdriveonline.com/regu...lfvGi6afkyM37I |
One of my customers called a dealer service rep in on a Saturday and Sunday to flash all his trucks computers to limit the speed to 62mph. Their travel is 99% on two lane roads and local, none of the drivers was aware of the change, thus the change being made on Saturday and Sunday.
The phone was ringing all day on Monday to his service manager with power complaints from the drivers. If they’re going to govern all the big trucks they need to limit them to right lane only, or they’ll have traffic tied up worse than it is now with two of them driving side by side. |
That's why I didn't want to buy a Hellcat Superstock or Demon. They are speed limiter restricted to 168mph (due to the 18" drag radials). The Redeye with 20" wheels is limited by aerodynamic factors only. (200 mph). :beers:
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Doesn't matter to me, We are still driving 50-60 year old classics and will continue to do so. Not even remotely interested in anything new.
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We'll have to see what happens with the auto industry, but it's possible that more people will buy new cars than old ones as they adopt this philosophy. The question is how does an individual manufacturer feeling about their product change?
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It'll all tank :D
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