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EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars (bbc.co.uk)
AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: Speed limiting technology looks set to become mandatory for all vehicles sold in Europe from 2022, after new rules were provisionally agreed by the EU. Road safety charity Brake called it a "landmark day," but the AA said "a little speed" helped with overtaking or joining motorways. Safety measures approved by the European Commission included intelligent speed assistance (ISA), advanced emergency braking and lane-keeping technology. The EU says the plan could help avoid 140,000 serious injuries by 2038 and aims ultimately to cut road deaths to zero by 2050. Under the ISA system, cars receive information via GPS and a digital map, telling the vehicle what the speed limit is. This can be combined with a video camera capable of recognizing road signs. The system can be overridden temporarily. If a car is overtaking a lorry on a motorway and enters a lower speed-limit area, the driver can push down hard on the accelerator to complete the maneuver. According to the report, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot-Citroen, Renault and Volvo already have models available with some of the ISA technology fitted.
I take three busses to work and back every day, so this will not effect me in the slightest.
Once all the cars are automatically speed limited, governments can save money by reducing highway patrol cops. And once the highway patrol cars are gone, we can hack our cars to override the automatic speed limiter and pass everybody with impunity!
MUAHAHAHAHA!
... the legion of wailing crybaby Libertarian idiots who don't live in Europe but just can't help themselves but be the real victims, here.
The proposal explicitly states that the system can be switched on and off in addition to temporary pauses
Germany allowed for impressive fast cars so people can get all over Germany in a shorter time.
To be at a meeting on time, to conduct business. To go on a holiday.
Powerful and safe cars designed for German fast roads. With very advanced medical care that's ready all over Germany.
Now the EU steps in to remove that advanced German technology and returns once advanced Germany to slow Communist East German speed limits.
Now with slower new cars and more tax.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Go to bed and sleep off your extra chromosomes you retarded cunt.
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Go start your own zero-law society in outer space you Libertarian retards, you morons just don't fucking get it and never will. Your whims do not decide laws for a reason, faggots. Whining solves nothing. Ranting solves nothing.
You don't even fucking LIVE IN EUROPE, MORON! Why are YOU WHINING? Your life is apparently pathetic retarded victim faggot shit like Huxley.
GET. REAL. PROBLEMS. MORONS.
Two important bits in TFA are not mentioned in the summary:
1. there will be a switch to disable the speed limiter until the engine is powered off.
2. The car gets a black box that can be accessed after an accident.
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And of course lets not forget exemptions for 'special' people, you know, those with urgent high level government work, like being rich and driving their uber-toys..
Of course it will create a nice little black market in bypass systems...
Of course they say it would have an on-off switch (for a compulsory system? unique), and I am sure that wont be logged and/or reported..
Lets for a moment ignore the fact that speed is not THE cause of most road fatalities (that honor falls to drunk driving, exhaustion, and distracted driving in about that order).
I wonder when they will mandate riders licenses for road use of pushbikes, along with warrants for safety, road taxes, and license plates so that red lights cameras can work on them..
Sigh.
But I'm pretty damn sure it's not Europe. You're a fucking moron.
All uncontrollable things aside, speed is in fact THE factor that determines the severity of a crash and the survivability of a collision, you're a fucking moron and your whiny faggot dance doesn't apply to Europe either.
GET. REAL. PROBLEMS. LIBERTARIAN. FAGGOT. CHILDREN.
Go to bed and sleep off your extra chromosomes you retarded cunt.
Theses measures come from the UN, the EU just adopted them. You disable the speed limiter by pushing hard on the accelerator, or you can also disable it permanently. It is the mandatory black box installed that is worrying. If you crash and it can be shown that you were speeding and regularly do so, your insurance company might screw you. It will also record where ever you go with the car, who will have access to that data?
Won't work so well in nanny states like Australia, where the max speed is 110 km/h on divided carriage ways, 100 for highways, but mostly 80, and increasingly 50.
It'll be interesting to see how the Aussie state goverments react (particularly Victoria), as a major source of revenue declines.
Or should we expect new car sales to fall off a cliff, as people who want to retain control hang on to their older cars?
Many people fall asleep driving on deserted roads at 100 km/h, helped no doubt by the road signs which subliminally suggest you sleep ("feeling tired?", "fatigue kills" etc). But this tech package seems to have an answer for that as well, with fatigue monitoring.
And what happens when you have a truck up your arse, sitting on your tail because your car is obeying the speed limit? Will the car speed up automatically, or not allow itself to be intimidated (with whatever consequences that may entail for the occupants)?
ie never.
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...How do you pass a car doing 45 mph on a road limited at 55 mph? The answer is, you don't, and are delayed and consigned to do 45 as long as the bozo in front of you decides to do 45, because it would take too long to pass, and some oncoming car would come out of *somewhere* to give you an exciting ride.
And then of course there is the emergency aspects of this - you're being chased, or you're attempting to get the H out of the woods before it burns down entirely, or you're just keeping in front of the mile-wide tornado, etc. etc.
You're doing the 70 mph limit on an Interstate highway, and want to get into the right lane to exit, and need to sprint ahead just a little to increase clearance with the car behind so you can get in the right lane to access the exit, and... you can't do it. And its FAR more difficult to attempt that by slowing and dropping into a space behind that car, as there may not be such a space, some pinhead without a speed limited car may come racing up just to keep you from being able to do that (every other person on the road is a prick, in case you haven't noticed), and on, and on... 1000's of reasons why this is a bad idea.
The ultimate reason that this is a bad idea is that I would never, ever, ever buy a new car again, and know a lot of people that would feel the same way. I belong to the Sports Car Club of America, about 55,000 people, so there's 55,000 "no sale"s right there. And being how this is the USA, and we are a bit 'round the bend about the freedom thing, one of the biggest reasons we have 350 million privately owned firearms in a country with about 320 million people including the kids, such a car would not make a lot of money being sold here, I think.
Hitting a brick wall at 100km/h isn't any safer than hitting a brick wall at 200km/h.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#Safety
Next theyâ(TM)re going to pass a law to require all men to wear dresses.
Anyone who thinks Muslins did it from a cave in Afghanistan should do the human race a favor and just kill themselves.
And if not, why not, they are the ones who _constantly_ and _noisily_ ride way above the speed limit. I don't care about the car driver who's going 57 instead of 55. I care about the biker going 60 in a 20mph zone, or 120 on a mountain road.
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And sleep in onsies...
This 'feature' really makes me want to buy a new car...
Rear fog lamps.
I guess other countries have similar rules to the UK which is they are only to be used if visibility is less than 100 metres.
If we're talking about mandatory speed limiters on cars, let's also have the speed limited to 40mph whenever the high intensity rear fog lamps are switched on to put a stop to the idiots in over powered cars doing 85mph in the third lane in torrential rain with the fog lamps on.
Yeah, thousands of things *could* happen. But nearly always, they *don't*!
Why is this generation such a bunch of massive pussies, that they would give away literally any freedom they sti have left, for the slightest of tiniest of possible risks?
Ever heard of "Worth it"? Ever heard of taking a (in this case ridiculously tiny) risk, to get something valuable?
Especially for cases, like those you mentioned, that will not happen twice anyway if people have the slightest bit of brains: Why did the car 'suddenly stop?" It's not magic! Fix that problem! Instead of banning the entirety of fast cars, pubishing everyone for the failue of one. Fix the car. Fix drivers of that life history!
Anything that is worth *anything*, comes at a risk, even of life.
*You* can choose to abandon being alive altogether to "live" forever. (What a logic!) But you cannot "kill" others to "save" their lives!
Go cure your anxiety disorder! At your level, it's a mental illness!
Considering my car's sign recognition camera routinely misinterprets and claims e.g. the speed limit is 140 in a 50 zone, this should get fun.
If it's on by default, I predict the sales of GPS jammers will skyrocket if this becomes the norm. Not to mention duct tape to cover the sign reading camera. Yes, even if you can actually turn it off in settings, a lot of people simply won't read the damn manual.
Um, what about the poor sod driving a car who has a heart attack? Technically that is a road death.
Of course, they can end ALL road deaths by ripping up all the roads and outlawing vehicles other than horse drawn wagons on paths rather than roads. Or they could simply rename the roads as streets and have no more road deaths. But that's a big cheat, too.
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Their leaders suckered them into it with the usual lies and multiple votes until what the elite wanted finally happened.
So now go back and read the nonsense you wrote. You equated people who want to self determine and be free of foreign control with fascists and racists.
You are REALLY dumb. Even for /.
INB4 somebody calling you a "conservative" name caller.
Ho the hell do supposedly grown-up "people" in the US "think" in such obvious divide-and-control propaganda caricatures? And only binary rigid one-dimensional ones too!
Someone puts up a 0 km/h sign in the middle of a 120 km/h stretch of road?
Will the car just come to a sudden stop with all the cars behind it crashing into it?
The problem is not that it is the cause of accidents. The problem is that it increases the risk of fatalities for all user: https://ec.europa.eu/transport.... Hitting a pedestrian at 32km/h kills the pedestrian 5 times out of 100. Hitting a pedestrian at 64km/h kills the pedestrian 85 times out of 100.
My son enjoy taking is bike to go ride with is friend. I sure hope it doesn't get involve in an accident but if it ever happens, I'd prefer that the car was forcing the driver to respect that 30km/h limit in the village. And if he bypassed the system then he would have to take the responsabilities for it. And by the way, I don't understand people speeding in densely populated area. Most of the time you're doing small distances in those areas. Here in Belgium the 30km/h zones are at most 2km long I'd say. It takes 4 minutes at 30km/h, why would you risk lives of people for earning at most 3 minutes. The speed limits are not there to annoy people, they are there to limit the inertia of your car when you'll hit that wall, people, what else, the day you have a problem. And we all make mistakes and accidents. And also for those "pilots", king of the roads, even if it's not you the problem, if you are speeding on the highway and I overtake someone forgetting to look in my mirror and you hit me, it will be my fault indeed, but we will both die, if you'd respect the speed limit, we'd still be alive so that you would be able to receive the money from my insurance.
This move is a step in the right direction.
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aims ultimately to cut road deaths to zero by 2050
You can aim all you want, but cutting road deaths to zero by 2050 is a very naive goal..
Unless we won't have roads anymore....
Rules be nice, but no way that the governments are going to lose that big fat cash cow of speeding tickets, so this system will be there, but won't be enforced. The moment they do, the government loses so much money that the ruling will be overturned almost immediately.
Little by the little Europeans are losing their freedom. What's next? You can only eat certain foods? Can't listen to loud music? Your'e not allowed to complain when outsiders grope or rape your daughters?
Sounds a wee bit like the ill-fated 737 Max 8's MCAS system, which overrode the pilot's climb ability when they needed it most.
Not having power when you need it to safely avoid an accident will cost lives.
But, just as with self-driving cars, more lives will probably be saved, overall, by the system. Because humans, on average, aren't great drivers; computers can, or soon will be able to, outperform them.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
Is this based on the 1963 limits ?
Cover the camera, snip the GPS, fixed
Remember Germany? The country that pretty much dictates what goes in the EU?
The country (and as far as I know the only one in the EU, if not the world) that has no speed limit because even 130km/h (about 90mph) isn't fast enough? And where the mere suggestion of a speed limit is irresponsible and against sanity and reason,even for their politicians?
Yeah. That's gonna work out. I can see that. Uhhuh.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We would be far better off putting EV subsidies into electric public transit. If a person wants an EV they can buy one at full price. Electric public transit will do far more for the environment.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
If a car is overtaking a lorry on a motorway and enters a lower speed-limit area, the driver can push down hard on the accelerator to complete the maneuver.
So the car suddenly slows down if it enters speed limit area? That means if you are switching lanes for example you could accidently ram into the next car because of this. This is just a disaster waiting to happen. Any computer controlled movements that can take place at random times are just dangerous.
Secondly if you have an emergency then this means you can't drive over the speed limit and someone could possibly die before reaching the hospital.
This is bad.
foreced to buy the map service or is it free?
One foot on the brake and one on the gas, hey!
Well, there's too much traffic, I can't pass, no!
So I tried my best illegal move
Well, baby, black and white come and touched my groove again!
Gonna write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55! Oh No!
Uh!
So I signed my name on number 24, hey!
Yeah the judge said, "Boy, just one more...
We're gonna throw your ass in the city joint"
Looked me in the eye, said, "You get my point?"
I said Yea!, Oh yea!
Write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55!
Oh, yea!
I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
Uh!
When I drive that slow, you know it's hard to steer.
And I can't get get my care out of second gear.
What used to take two hours now takes all day. Huh!
It took me 16 hours to get to L.A.
Gonna write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55!
No, no no,
I can't drive...
(I can't drive 55!)
I can't drive...
(I can't drive 55!)
I can't drive 55!
So it's not really comparable at all.
Now the BEV cars are beating the pants off the ICE cars in acceleration. It won't be long before they beat them in every category. With such low center of gravity, BEVs will be impossible to beat. Right now Tesla is plagued with production hell, delivery hell, service hell and self induced shoot-my-feet-with-tweets hell... But the other super car makers are on hot pursuit. Already there are 4000 HP cars with 4 motors, one for each wheel, each with 1000 HP are being casually talked about.
Strong suspension, and souped up brakes are available for on the market. Easily added to BEVs. Torque being controlled to each wheel electronically, and with instant response from the motors to those electronic controls, BEVs using torque vectoring, there are things the ICEV can never do.
The BMWs and Porches cried uncle, and the government concern trolls about safety and calls off the game...
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Human driven cars NEED more limitations; too many stupid people (who should only be allowed to remove themselves from the gene pool.)
Self-driving cars #1 problem is the humans. By 2050 they'll probably be discussing more limitations if not passing future bans on human drivers. Limit humans to half the speed and double the robots speed because they can handle it...
If you obsess over perfecting the rounding error at the end to get 100% you'll be fine; it's that last bit that always ends up creating problems.
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Looks like it's time to start buying cars in the US to import and sell in Europe. I'm guessing that you could get a nice premium for an unlocked american car as long as it meets all the other EU standards, such as stop/tail light colors.
I think I'll wait for the next models, I've heard they will have Personal Commuting Integration (PCI).
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The guy's a lunatic, don't waste your time responding. Learn to identify people who are beyond hope and move on.
As with “gun-control” legislation, less-than-honest politicians (in the EU and the UK) have cynically, quietly excused themselves from compliance.
Not surprisingly, vehicles transporting politicians (in the UK and the EU) will never have ISA installed.
It’s good enough for us, but apparently not for them.
Shocking, isn’t it, that politicians themselves are evidently hesitant about personally enjoying all the endlessly-ballyhooed “benefits” of this new, mandatory technology.
Could it be that they don’t trust this dubious kit any more than the rest of us do?
But of course, their lives and safety are “important.”
Ours apparently less so.
Strict speed limits were set for all moving bodies in 1905, no need to override it with an european law, thank you!
Memes! Yes folks, the true danger to people isn't driving too fast, it is people using a picture of E.T. with a silly caption. Enough of a threat to humanity that the EU needs to eliminate it.
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The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Who needs completely self driving cars when you can just have a robot back seat driver telling you what to do? "Turn left. Avoid pedestrian on right. Stop at stop sign. Slow down. I'm telling the cops about what you just did." Much more cost-effective.
Unless we won't have roads anymore....
Not necessarily. An alternative approach would be to simply not build any more roads and then, by about 2050 Europe will probably have reached terminal gridlock. Traffic congestion is already credited with reducing some fatalities.
Guess what, EU and car manufacturers are not going to pay for all these new obligatory systems!
EU tightening that iron fist lately. Why would citizens of the EU want to live in a place that seems like kindergarten for adults?
You know that when you drive faster in Germany than 130 KMH, the insurance will not cover you. Even if it is legal to do so in some places.
That makes way too much sense. There really is almost never any practical reason to drive faster than that so it probably should require a special insurance rider (with a large fee of course) and a good explanation if you wish to drive faster. The only exception I can think of is for first responders in an emergency - an ambulance should have no fixed limit if you get what I'm saying. It always puzzles me when car companies make cars that can drive 300kph or some other ridiculous speed that nobody either can or should actually reach on any public road. Honestly I'd be fine with a hard limit of 130kph or similar for any car on a public road.
The United States of Europe government is ahead of schedule in growth of power it strips from anachronistic member states.
You were warned. Before you downmod me because you like this law, realize there will be many you don't. Your nations will do little more than administer roads and other mandated social benefits.
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The only way to stop a bad guy with a speeding car, is a good guy with a speeding car.
Lets for a moment ignore the fact that speed is not THE cause of most road fatalities
Actually it is but not in the way you are probably thinking. My grandfather once pointed out to me a logically airtight fact. If you are the vehicle operator of a vehicle that causes any accident there is one inescapable truth in every case - you were driving too fast for the conditions. Those conditions include the mental state of the vehicle operator as well as weather, traffic, and the rest. This is always true even when other factors are in play as well (which there often are). If you hit something unintentionally at any speed (even at 1kph), it is ALWAYS true that you were driving too fast for the conditions. Sometimes the only safe speed is 0. If you are drunk any you hit something, being drunk is obviously causal but equally true is the fact that you were driving too fast for the conditions. You should have not moved the vehicle. You cannot hit something if you are not moving. A vehicle moving sufficiently slowly (possibly 0kph) by definition cannot cause a fatality.
Bear in mind that police can issue tickets for reckless driving at speeds well below the legal limit for a given stretch of road if the conditions warrant. Speed limits only apply when conditions are "normal". Once something changes "normal" (weather, impairment, distraction, disability, etc) then speed absolutely becomes a consideration.
The Netherlands have a GNP per capita with the US. Amsterdam - and the Randstad region in general - is quite an economic powerhouse. Rotterdam is the largest or second largest port in Europe, too.
Also, the Netherlands score far higher on most measures of life expectancy and satisfaction. One important part is the livable cities.
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Just because your top speed is hard-limited by software doesn't mean your rate of acceleration is limited, you'll still have all the horsepower you need, and by the way how many day-to-day circumstances require you to be able to go faster than 122mph? Here in the U.S. anyway anything over 100mph, so far as I remember, is a felony, and the vast majority of drivers wouldn't be able to properly handle a vehicle going that fast anyway.
Besides which, as I've stated previously: there'll be aftermarket work-arounds for all this almost simultaneously with the cars hitting the roads. People who really want to give this law a big middle finger will do it anyway. Even the so-called 'black box' will have a work-around to prevent detection of what they're doing.
For leading the way...
Microsoft is next to "show us the way" to Socialism....self-imposed wealth taxes and direct challenges to Amazon to match them?
Yaaah....corporations have always done the heavy-lifting for Empire.
Over the next 20 years, if this is done.
To put that in perspective, there are rather more than 1.4M injuries (not necessarily serious) resulting from auto accidents in the EU per year right now.
Doing a bit of math, we see that this new technology will reduce the injury rate by 0.5%.
I'm skeptical that this is going to be worthwhile, given that the reduction in injuries is going to be down there in the noise level, or just barely detectable....
I'm also curious whether the police and emergency services are going to be required to be so limited. Or is this change just meant for the riff-raff?
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Every damn time I think the EU can't get any stupider, they prove me wrong.
Currently, the accelerator pedal usually has a continuous effect - press a little deeper and you get a little more oomph, press more deeper and you get a lot more oomph (unless you are too low on the revs). That is very easy for the brain to grok, predict and modulate.
I don't think that it is a good idea to make this a non-continuous effect. Press a bit and you get oomph up to a limit (that is non-intuitive unless you watch the speedometer all the time instead of watching the traffic). Press a little deeper and you get nothing, press even deeper and you get nothing. Press even more deeper and suddenly you get more oomph again. Not intuitive to modulate.
Once the self-driving car problem is solved and is a reality, the whole driving experience will be taken away from the human driver and handed over to the computer. At that point, being able to speed will be just one of the things you'll no longer be making decisions on.
Speeding will become a thing of the past.
Traffic jams will become a thing of the past.
Vehicle accidents and fatalities will drop to near zero.
DUI / DWI will become a thing of the past.
You'll no longer be a " driver ". You'll simply be a passenger. Hell, you may not even own the car.
To force everyone into a self-driving solution, insurance costs will be so high for a non-self driving car that only the .01% will be able to afford one.
( Assuming they're even allowed to drive on the same roads as the self-drive varieties at all. Eg: Off road vehicles only )
on the Autobahn.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
See, this is why. Why would you want to be part of a group that would mandate a policy like this in your sovereign country?
By 2022, there won't be an EU to enforce the ban. All this will accomplish is pissing even more people off. Way to go, EU!
*laughs in aftermarket ECU*
Print a small 140 Km/h sign
stick it in front of camera
profit
Once the self-driving car problem is solved and is a reality...Speeding will become a thing of the past. Traffic jams will become a thing of the past. Vehicle accidents and fatalities will drop to near zero. DUI / DWI will become a thing of the past.
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...and yet, mental illness will continue.
But, just as with self-driving cars . . .
They don't exist and they certainly won't in our lifetime.
Isn't it obvious?
Every time an article like this is posted, you see a plethora of questions and statements beginning with "But what if . . . ?", "What happens when . . . ", "Yeah, but suppose I . . . ?",
Haven't you people noticed? Don't you realize that all of this shit has to be programmed into the car's system, so it doesn't kill everyone? If the system can't determine that it is driving right next to a truck, simply because it is the same color as the fucking sky, then you have to ask yourself what other everyday scenarios weren't even taken into consideration, because nobody even gave it a second thought?
And pee sitting down.
What if you are running from terrorist, or some natural disaster? As a driver, if I am responsible for everything my vehicle does, then it must be 100% under my control.
To force everyone into a self-driving solution, insurance costs will be so high for a non-self driving car that only the .01% will be able to afford one.
Your insurance charges are calculated directly from risk, because that is WTF insurance is. Why do people keep parroting this nonsense?
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Suppose you're sitting at a 4-way intersection regulated by a stop-light. Across the intersection, there is a shop on the corner. The entrance is on the corner of the building, facing the intersection. The light turns green, allowing the car the right of way, but the car's sensors pick up the red light reflecting off the glass door at the entrance of the shop.
Now suppose it is the other way around. The car's sensors are picking up the green light reflecting off the glass door.
It's not that simple. 160 km/h is just fine on a highway in an optimal state of maintenance, under otherwise optimal circumstances: weather, traffic, angle of the sun, hours of restorative sleep, recent sugar intake, condition of tires on vehicle and all around general mechanical soundness, no giant trucks shedding part of their loads, no giant piles of leaves migrating to the opposite bank without using a marked crosswalk, etc. etc.
Long, long ago I crossed much of Canada on my motorcycle at a typical cruising speed around 145 km/h—a speed where my bike absolutely purred along—completely aware that at every minute of every hour I was one short, inattentive moment away from becoming a giant road pizza. (Consequently, I had very very few inattentive moments, and I was aware of every vehicle in my viable light-cone of paint exchange, 360 degrees, at all times.
Much of the trans-Canada wasn't even divided at that point, especially in the prairies, so you're often undertaking passing manoeuvres in the oncoming lane with extra haste, despite multiple miles of forward visibility; I very patiently awaited my main chance, and then lowered the boom, dropping a gear down and spiking up to 90% of red line as I hit the gap hard; there's a brief wind-waggle as you come hard around the ass-end of a big rig, which doesn't much change your vector (if you ignore the effect, as you should), but it does slam you into ten degrees of sideways tilt before you bounce upright again half a second later; not quite Yeager punching through Mach 1, but as close as I ever got).
This was entirely unlike some of the grocery-getters who were drafting along behind the big rig, completely unaware they were riding a giant wave, then they try to punch out into the passing lane at half throttle, and almost fall back once the hit the brunt of the wind, before they finally get religion about the throttle, by which point their passing manoeuvre—if they stick it out—has stretched out to 15 to 20 long seconds, by which point the halfway-panicked driver is struggling to figure out whether that oncoming car in the far distance is less than a full mile, which is darn hard to do—though, unfortunately, it won't be at all hard to do by the time the the struggling grocery-getting pulls even with the big rig's powerful hindquarters, not if he's misjudged this treacle adventure the least bit. Good work, Sherlock. You can punch the brakes, drop back 30 m in a heart beat, and tuck back in behind the big truck—supposing he's not also so jumpy by now he punches his brakes at the same time, thinking he's giving you a necessary out in the forward direction. Compared to this kind of thing, my three-second power surges well north of 145 km/h seemed like a giant oasis of unadulterated prudence.
Never once did I leave a big rig speculating nervously about whether I had competently managed this business of darting in/out of the oncoming lane. Not only that, I tended to start these manoeuvres from 3 seconds back, beginning my hard acceleration still safely tucked in my own lane, on an inside line, perfectly timed to hit the open gap behind the oncoming car, at speed, hard off the ass-end of the truck ahead, the precise moment the maw opens up. This involves solving (simple) differential equations in three dimensions simultaneously: where (right off the ass-end of the truck in front), when (the precise moment the maw opens up), and how fast (a lot honking faster than the truck ahead)—all have to perfectly align at a single moment in time (though there is some rubber in the "honking fast" constraint, with leeway up or down, to absorb minor miscalculation).
Point of view from the big rig: oncoming car on undivided highway blows past on the left; 500 ms later, motorcycle pops out ti
The only people who are bigger pricks than bicyclists are goddamned pilots. "Goose-Incarnated" appears to be both. Good luck with that.
I know this is slashdot but is it too much to ask to at least read the summary:
The system can be overridden temporarily. If a car is overtaking a lorry on a motorway and enters a lower speed-limit area, the driver can push down hard on the accelerator to complete the maneuver.
So you have the power when you need it. Just hit the accelerator to the bottom and it will bypass the limit.
Next EU law: website will make it impossible to comment without having read the corresponding article.
What sig ?
The EU also says the override is for initial public acceptance. Better not to have the law at all rather than lose your rights one by one and then find it's too late, you're tracked.
Skoda and probably the entire VW group also have most of this technology in their more expensive cards: lane guidance, traffic sign detection, assistive cruise control which automatically keeps distance and warms in case of crash risk. The navigation also shows speed limits. It's just not linked to a limiter yet.
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The proposal calls for device to make you attentive to the fact you are over the speed limit.
Automatically forcing breaking is not required.
This is just another item in the long list of brexiteer disinformation being spread about the EU.