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From the linked article: > Modern automobiles do use governors to limit engine damage, but the threshold is set absurdly high, often at 155 mph. Even safety-co
by ttfkam 3y ago
From the linked article:
> Modern automobiles do use governors to limit engine damage, but the threshold is set absurdly high, often at 155 mph. Even safety-conscious Volvo allows its cars to reach 112 mph, 27 mph faster than the highest speed limit anywhere in the U.S.
It's already there. They just need to adjust from 150 down to 100. Sounds substantially similar to $0 to me.
- imgabe 3y agoThat’s not what they’re proposing though: > NTSB’s proposed solution: Adopting Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA), a modern and techier version of the speed governors that Cincinnati considered a century ago. Rather than preventing a vehicle from ever exceeding a given threshold, ISA uses geolocation to automatically reflect the legal limit on a given street or highway.
- ttfkam 3y agoThat's because they want to restrict notably lower than 100mph, which is location-dependent. But we can already restrict to 100 (or 90) without geolocation and extra costs. NTSB's proposal is a stretch goal.