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This is going to be useless in practice because almost everyone is speeding on every road and highway, save for residential streets.
by ronsor 2y ago
This is going to be useless in practice because almost everyone is speeding on every road and highway, save for residential streets.
- raldi 2y agoI think most drivers would find it quite useful to hear a quick tone when they hit 10mph over the speed limit.
- acdha 2y agoImagine if the entertainment system / phone turned off when you hit the limit and all you could see or hear was the navigation if active. In an actual emergency situation, you’d accept that in a heartbeat but I think it’d be surprisingly effective for all of the people who just crank up the workout music and try to get to work fast enough not to be late.
- sokoloff 2y agoAround town? Absolutely (though I would still oppose a law that mandates it, despite having bought a car with a configurable feature of that sort). On a highway that's posted 55 mph but designed for 80+? Beyond useless. And also the reason I have disabled the tone in the car that I did buy with a similar feature, because there are plenty of 80 mph freeways around me that are posted 55 and I'm not going to deal with hearing that tone every time I drive 65 on such a freeway.
- raldi 2y agoIt goes ding once at 65 and once at 75. Seems fine.
- sokoloff 2y agoOnce per drive? Agree that's fine. Or once every time you cross from 64 to 65 in a 55 and from 74 to 75 in a 65 (which is how I read it)? That's getting turned off/disabled (or may perversely encourage drivers to vary their speed from 78-82 instead of 74-78).
- scruple 2y agoSounds like alarm fatigue.