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I don't feel that mechanically, or even electronically, affecting the engine behavior by installing a general purpose computer that is capable of reading from a
by 015a 3y ago
I don't feel that mechanically, or even electronically, affecting the engine behavior by installing a general purpose computer that is capable of reading from a centralized database of geolocated speed limits would cost, effectively, $0. Also, no one asserted that regulation always makes products more expensive.
- mattlondon 3y agoMany many cars already have something similar as a table stakes feature: they show the current speed limit that you are driving on, either via some of sort database and/or sign recognition. Adding a few lines of code to limit the speed to that +20mph or whatever would be almost zero cost
- 015a 3y agoSure. Expensive cars already have that. Car regulations have, almost universally, increased the cost of automobiles. The typical counter-argument to this is that it reduces the national cost-burden of an automobile-ized society by reducing the number of collisions and deaths; events of objective destruction that destroy value. Its a reasonable first-order argument, but it also feels too shallow to take entirely at face value, as it fails to consider the aggregate depreciation-value of the increased cost of automobiles after they're produced.