Speed limiting cars by 2022
kingrollo
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47715415
Speed limiting technology looks set to become mandatory for all vehicles sold in Europe from 2022, after new rules were provisionally agreed by the EU.
The Department for Transport said the system would also apply in the UK, despite Brexit.
tick...tick - a petition awaits !
Speed limiting technology looks set to become mandatory for all vehicles sold in Europe from 2022, after new rules were provisionally agreed by the EU.
The Department for Transport said the system would also apply in the UK, despite Brexit.
tick...tick - a petition awaits !
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"Mr King added: "Dodgem cars are all fitted with speed limiters, but they still seem to crash."
Ha, I can. There are protests against the possibility of creating more 20mph zones in towns, so I think this will cause outrage from those drivers who seem to insist on getting from a to b as fast as possible.
I had thought for a while that it wouldn't take too much to physically limit vehicles to speed limits - but then there are loads of speed limits that are appropriate for specific times of the day and can be safely exceeded at others.
If that wasn't possible, then the speed differential between vehicles on the road from 2022 would be just plain dangerous.
Even in 20mph areas?
I'd say maybe 50% keep to the speed limit on motorways (when it's clear), maybe 70% on 30mph roads that feel urban, about 10% on dual carriageway roads that are 30mph and about 5% in 20mph zones.
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This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
Think they gave up on it and it's all back to 30 now :roll:
Anyway - the country's roads are in such a shocking state that supercars/performance cars or indeed any cars with very low profile tyres are pointless now days. Spend most of their time slowing down or driving around potholes.
Basically the whole of Richmond is planned to be 20mph (with very few exclusions). https://www.richmond.gov.uk/20mph
but currently we have a choice ...
https://twitter.com/JoostNederpelt/stat ... 3929165825
lived in an area with some for a few years now, doesnt seem to make a whole heap of difference to speed of cars it has to be said, I had to rant at a near neighbour about it once as he treated the road like his own personal race track and he claimed he hadnt realised...because they always put speedbumps on normal roads :roll:
I can see the limiter will create issues, Ive no problem with the principle of keeping to speed limits,but Im thinking of the stuff you get with trucks, always remember getting to the bottom of Snake pass driving home from Manchester once following two lorries, and as the road became two lanes, the 2nd lorry decided to overtake the 1st going up... so youll get the same in cars, like on the A52 as you do now through the villages,limit drops,most slow down, out of the villages back up to NSL straight bit of road, be a test of acceleration, which you know the kind of people who would break speed limits would floor it anyway, then who yields if they both hit roughly the same sped, they wont just like they dont when passing cyclists on the road, bother thinking they need to drive differently/safely
and then theres the whole thing of it taking away an element of concentration of the driver, theyve said with driverless cars,and arguably its something cropping up more in airplanes too, the human driver isnt able to adapt/react to things as quickly if it hasnt been engaged in the actual process instead of relying on the computer to do it, you had that case last week someone had reversed onto a pavement and killed a pedestrian, and their excuse was the reversing sensors didnt warn them of a problem, so they didnt bother to check for one either.
But if that's the limit of their reaction time then isn't that the right maximum speed for them - as frustrating as it can be ... !
A sensible goverment would rejected the proposals and it can be rejected. is any government sensible though - well we all know what ours is like.
all the schools round here have them.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour