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This is not a bad idea - but speed limits have not changed to reflect changing cars. Speed limits are stuck at 100km in Australia and have been for decades - d
by legostormtroopr 4y ago
This is not a bad idea - but speed limits have not changed to reflect changing cars.
Speed limits are stuck at 100km in Australia and have been for decades - despite cars introducing anti-lock breaking, predictive breaking, anti-rollover technology, lane assist and so on.
Cars are now much much safer, and yet speed limits outside of cities have not changed to reflect this. If the government wants to introduce speed limiters on all cars, they also need to re-examine speed limits - especially outside of urban areas.
- CodeBeater 4y agoDoesn't Australia have "follow the traffic" rules?
- stephen_g 4y agoNo, they will set up cameras and fine anybody going more than a few km/h or so over the speed limit (theoretically they can fine you for going 1 km/h over the limit but there is some kind of tolerance, people usually assume 10% but the police and road agencies don't disclose what it is (apparently it's not always the same for every road or for the conditions at the time either). I believe it's generally less than 10%).
- woodruffw 4y agoYou mentioned it, but to clarify: cars are much safer for their occupants. As a pedestrian or cyclist, I'm pink mist whether the speeding car has lane assist or not.
- redox99 4y agoHe's talking about highway speeds. There shouldn't be pedestrians or cyclists there.
- NoPicklez 4y agoI'd say the majority of the country doesn't have predictive braking, lane assist, lane departure detection, adaptive cruise control.
- lamontcg 4y ago> Cars are now much much safer, and yet speed limits outside of cities have not changed to reflect this. They're largely much bigger now and carry more kinetic energy and they're more of a danger to everyone around them. And braking technology really hasn't advanced significantly compared to velocity squared. Human reaction time also hasn't improved one bit and has largely gotten more and more distracted and worse. With fatal accidents rising, I don't understand how the conclusion is that everything is so much safer than ever and that we need to be raising speed limits. I must not be blessed with good enough counterintuitive thinking skills.
- nicbou 4y agoI can drive stupid fast on the Autobahn and still be fairly safe, but it burns fuel at an alarming rate. A few years ago, they considered a speed limit not for safety, but for the environment. Another thing is that a modern car is not much safer in adverse conditions. When it snows or rains, things get dicey.