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I recall hearing about Japan putting speed limiters in all cars and using GPS to determine the road and therefore speed limit to set the limiter dynamically in
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago
I recall hearing about Japan putting speed limiters in all cars and using GPS to determine the road and therefore speed limit to set the limiter dynamically in vehicles. (Perhaps some details are wrong or confabulated; regardless, it’s a neat idea.) I’m in favor of such a system in theory; I’d be concerned about privacy issues but there’s no reason for such a system to require driver identification anyway.
- analog31 2y agoMy family rented a car in England last summer, and this was an optional feature of the car. I didn't want to try it out on my first time driving on the left, so I didn't turn it on. Moreover, the speed limits on the motorways were changing in real time. I observed very little speeding -- almost none.
- YZF 2y agoThey have a ton of speeding cameras which is probably why.
- 0_____0 2y agoMy experience driving in NZ was that people generally drove the speed limit +/- 10% or so, and speeding cameras certainly weren't ubiquitous. Some places might just have a more sane driving culture?
- scott_w 2y agoYou’ll have been on a variable speed zone of the motorway which is covered in cameras to enforce the limit reductions. People tend to behave themselves when they think they’ll lose their toys. If you drive in an area that’s known to not be covered by cameras, you’ll see it more, though it might be less than where you’re from.
- consp 2y agoMy car has this feature and a method to read signs but it cannot read white exception signs. There are plenty of speed limits when wet signs which get cought by the thing as normal signs. And the maps are continuously outdated so lots of smaller roads simply do not work properly.