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That sounds incredibly dangerous. What if you need a burst of acceleration in some emergency? Edit: Good points about the emergency cutoff being feasible, I st
by IntronExon 9y ago
That sounds incredibly dangerous. What if you need a burst of acceleration in some emergency?
Edit: Good points about the emergency cutoff being feasible, I stand corrected.
- dchuk 9y agoWell, it's the inverse of cruise control. So some comparable way to disengage quickly like tapping on the brakes could be thought up I'm sure.
- schrodinger 9y agoHow about have a point at which the pedal has extra resistance, and if you push through it, you can go over the limit?
- IntronExon 9y agoThat makes sense, and I’d pay for that feature.
- zyber 9y agoI'm pretty sure that the Volvo XC70 I rented two years ago had exactly this feature. If you'd kickdown it will release all the furious anger hidden beneath the hood.
- jacquesm 9y agoEvery automatic does this, even a 1980's classic Mini has a kickdown cable. It basically forces the gearbox to shift down to one gear lower than it would normally do at the speed you are traveling at.
- knodi123 9y agoThese devices exist, and are quite common in some countries. The number of situations where you need to suddenly accelerate past the speed limit are few and far between, but in the case of the car I rented recently, there was a single tactile button for turning the whole feature off.