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Manufacturing a car to travel only at the prevailing speed limit is "authoritarian" and "reactionary?"

malwrar 3y ago
Sure, consider what would need to happen for a system like this to actually be implemented. How would the car know what kind of road it is on? How would the car know the appropriate speed? What happens to sports cars and other enthusiast vehicles? What happens with existing vehicles? All these questions raise privacy and reliability concerns in my mind, not to mention the distinctly weird feeling of some outside party deciding what I can and can not be trusted with. This feels authoritarian to me, and as a proposal feels reactionary in the sense that the solution is simply “ban it”.
- xnx 3y ago
  Many cars already have speed governors built-in by the manufacturers. It seems reasonable that these limits should be set [at most] to the top speed allowed on US roads.
- IshKebab 3y ago
  The car would not need to know why road it's on because he suggested limiting it to the national speed limit, not the speed limit of the road you are currently on. Existing vehicles would eventually be replaced. Sports enthusiasts would presumably get some kind of exemption. I can't imagine what kind of privacy or reliability concerns you are imagining from limiting cars to 85mph. However... while limiting cars to 85mph is very sensible, the EU has decided to flex their idiot nanny muscles and do something much more stupid. Continuing in the tradition of the headphone volume and cookie laws they have come up with an extremely annoying law that will achieve none of its goals. Basically they will use unreliable GPS to figure out the current speed limit, but then it won't actually limit your speed, it will just beep at you annoyingly. You can disable it, but it will re-activate every time you start the car. Can I get 1000 face palms for the EU? It's almost enough to make you support Brexit.

Sure, consider what would need to happen for a system like this to actually be implemented. How would the car know what kind of road it is on? How would the car know the appropriate speed? What happens to sports cars and other enthusiast vehicles? What happens with existing vehicles? All these questions raise privacy and reliability concerns in my mind, not to mention the distinctly weird feeling of some outside party deciding what I can and can not be trusted with. This feels authoritarian to me, and as a proposal feels reactionary in the sense that the solution is simply “ban it”.

xnx 3y ago
Many cars already have speed governors built-in by the manufacturers. It seems reasonable that these limits should be set [at most] to the top speed allowed on US roads.
IshKebab 3y ago
The car would not need to know why road it's on because he suggested limiting it to the national speed limit, not the speed limit of the road you are currently on. Existing vehicles would eventually be replaced. Sports enthusiasts would presumably get some kind of exemption. I can't imagine what kind of privacy or reliability concerns you are imagining from limiting cars to 85mph. However... while limiting cars to 85mph is very sensible, the EU has decided to flex their idiot nanny muscles and do something much more stupid. Continuing in the tradition of the headphone volume and cookie laws they have come up with an extremely annoying law that will achieve none of its goals. Basically they will use unreliable GPS to figure out the current speed limit, but then it won't actually limit your speed, it will just beep at you annoyingly. You can disable it, but it will re-activate every time you start the car. Can I get 1000 face palms for the EU? It's almost enough to make you support Brexit.