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Whoever came up with the idea that the car should beep loudly even close to the speed limit has clearly never driven a car. The best way to silence it is to con
by techpression 4mo ago
Whoever came up with the idea that the car should beep loudly even close to the speed limit has clearly never driven a car.
The best way to silence it is to constantly be over the speed limit or well below.
- lnsru 4mo agoThis thing makes me crazy. But I can somehow ignore my Skoda’s whining. The other car was bought months before this regulation happened and I will keep it as long as I can.
- iroddis 4mo agoProbably made worse by the fact that _every_ VW brand car I’ve driven has read about 10% high on the speedometer. I think I’m going 100 kph, but timing using the km markers on the highway show I’m going about 90. When I talked to the dealers, they said that the speedometers only have to be accurate +/- 10% according to the SAE specifications. After DieselGate I assumed that the high reading was to game the fuel consumption game. Never again, VW auto group…
- storus 4mo agoJust use the speed reported by your GPS. Most navigation apps show the GPS-based speed.
- cuu508 4mo agoA little nice thing the cars could do is automatically calibrate the speedometer from GPS when on a long stretch of a road. You would get the accuracy of GPS and the reliability of speedometer even when in city jungle, underground, during slow speed manoeuvres etc.
- jabroni_salad 4mo agoI have a GTI and with cruise control on, the speedo and my phone's gps reads exactly the same speed.
- embedding-shape 4mo agoI have a Audi A3, speedometer reads ~6km/h too high compared to GPS and various "speed-showing signs" I've driven past.
- mnw21cam 4mo agoMy 18 year old A3 reads about 1mph higher than the true speed at motorway speeds. It's pretty spot-on, which is very unusual.
- embedding-shape 4mo agoAh, mine is quite precisely 10 years younger, and also European if that matters, sounds like yours might be Mexican if it's in the US unless I'm mistaken. I guess there is some tuning process at the end of fabrication/production, maybe just "wild luck" either way.
- technothrasher 4mo agoI believe the only Audi car made in Mexico is the Q5. My US model 2025 A3, btw, is dead on (+/- 1 mph).
- martinpw 4mo ago> When I talked to the dealers, they said that the speedometers only have to be accurate +/- 10% according to the SAE specifications. I believe the requirement is only one way - they can read high by a certain % but they cannot read low. Which makes sense. But that means in reality they will usually read a little high.
- gene91 4mo agoWow TIL. I have observed that my rental cars in Europe all have faulty speedometer. Multiple brands, multiple countries. So this is why.
- martinpw 4mo agoWas in an Uber in Korea recently traveling from the airport and the car literally beeped every 30 seconds for the entirety of the one hour drive with what presumably was a speed limit warning - a beep AND a verbal message. Seemed to be only marginally over the limit. Drove me insane. I don't know how the driver dealt with it - he must experience it all day every day. I guess you just filter it out after a while but it definitely makes me think I need to do some research before getting a new car any time soon.
- martin_a 4mo agoWell, just don't drive fast than the speed limit and nothing will beep at you. Simple as that. Positive side effect: No expensive photos will be taken, too.
- techpression 4mo agoYes, let’s make people focus less on the road and instead worrying about 1km/h speeding. And where I live expensive photos are only taken way way later than the car starts beeping. It’s the real life equivalent of the cookie banner.
- martin_a 4mo agoEach km/h over the speed limit can decide between coming to a stop at the right moment or killing somebody. Don't try to put it into the wrong perspective. The beeping is fine.
- techpression 4mo agoNo, good driving, which includes focusing does that. People hit other people in the parking lot. There’s a reason some countries have significant higher death counts in traffic and no amount of beeping will change that.
- skrebbel 4mo agoWait what brand does that? I need to know what car to not buy.
- tonyedgecombe 4mo agoEvery new car sold in the EU. Most make it easy to turn off but it does default to on when you start the car.
- skrebbel 4mo agoThat’s terrible. Means I better drive my old Ford long enough for them to fix that ridiculous regulation.
- tonyedgecombe 4mo agoI don't see them fixing it, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if they doubled down and restricted the cars speed according to the local limits.
- LtWorf 4mo agoSometimes the camera will pick up speed limit signs that only apply for the exit lane or just an adjacent road. If cars were to suddenly break based on those it would be quite dangerous. There's a precise spot where the camera picks up a speed sign, every single time. There is no speed sign at all there. It must be some AI hallucination.
- tonyedgecombe 3mo agoI always assumed it was GPS based rather than using cameras.