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My first thought has always been that they are able to go faster because the world is not perfectly flat (or, perfectly round to be precise) so we have hills th
by diggan 3y ago
My first thought has always been that they are able to go faster because the world is not perfectly flat (or, perfectly round to be precise) so we have hills that cars need to be able to climb, and that extra power ends up making us able to travel faster than necessary when on flat ground.
Since I'm no car expert (or expert in anything really), I'm eager to hear how wrong my intuition is.
- AdamN 3y agoAn electronic governor wouldn't care about that. The important engineering issue for an ICE car would be the gear ratios of the upper gears but that's already pretty well handled. Fundamentally there is limited consumer demand for a governor (but some from parents and also Volvo does it to support their zero deaths goal). In the end, governments should mandate this but the value is not incredibly high compared to many other safety features. Sometimes deadly accidents happen because a driver is going 100mph but for the most part it's people running red lights at 50mph in a 30mph zone (which should be 25mph) that cause the most carnage.