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In my area, everyone goes about 10mph above the limit. Police don’t ticket. Will this system limit exactly at the speed limit? Or will it have some buffer thre

In my area, everyone goes about 10mph above the limit. Police don’t ticket. Will this system limit exactly at the speed limit? Or will it have some buffer threshold? This seems like pretty bad tech that I don’t want. And the way it’s written seems very gaslighty… “ the speed limiter technology is simply there to prevent ‘momentary lapses of concentration’ that could result in speeding” I don’t think my speeding is the result of momentary lapses of concentration, but calculated decisions about immediate road conditions or long term travel goals (eg, if I go 9 over the limit on a 10 hour trip, it reduces the trip by an hour).

akmarinov 2y ago
You can turn it off, but you have to do it every time you start a drive, like the auto start/stop system does at the moment
kristo 2y ago
The system is also supposed to discourage you from breaking the law intentionally, yes.
rsynnott 2y ago
That seems like a problem with your police force, not the tech. In the part of Dublin I live in, there's a 30km/h speed limit (dense urban centre - travel times didn't really change when it came in as the traffic is horrendous anyway). It's somewhat common for people (generally visitors) to ignore this completely, barreling along far too fast and putting people in danger. I'd be quite keen on anything that would stop that.
jmclnx 2y ago
I think this was tried in the US a very long time ago. Not as a law but as a limited experiment. I do not remember much, but I think it was abandoned due to a couple of safety issues. One I can think of is long steep down hills with a large truck in back of you. Cases could exist were you could not get out of the way and you cannot speed up. I do not remember the details. In many places in the US, this scenario does exist.

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In my area, everyone goes about 10mph above the limit. Police don’t ticket. Will this system limit exactly at the speed limit? Or will it have some buffer thre

by prepend 2y ago

akmarinov 2y ago
You can turn it off, but you have to do it every time you start a drive, like the auto start/stop system does at the moment
kristo 2y ago
The system is also supposed to discourage you from breaking the law intentionally, yes.
rsynnott 2y ago
That seems like a problem with your police force, not the tech. In the part of Dublin I live in, there's a 30km/h speed limit (dense urban centre - travel times didn't really change when it came in as the traffic is horrendous anyway). It's somewhat common for people (generally visitors) to ignore this completely, barreling along far too fast and putting people in danger. I'd be quite keen on anything that would stop that.
jmclnx 2y ago
I think this was tried in the US a very long time ago. Not as a law but as a limited experiment. I do not remember much, but I think it was abandoned due to a couple of safety issues. One I can think of is long steep down hills with a large truck in back of you. Cases could exist were you could not get out of the way and you cannot speed up. I do not remember the details. In many places in the US, this scenario does exist.