Speed Limiters

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Not sure if this will apply to bikes???

17 . Speed limiters in new cars

New cars will be fitted with speed limiters from July 6, 2022 to improve road safety.

The Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) black boxes will use GPS to work out what the speed limit is and will then ensure the car doesn't break it.

A new regulation will be imposed by the European Commission in the General Safety Regulation having been approved by the European Parliament in 2019 .

ISAs will be mandatory for all new models given 'type approval' from 6 July. This means any new car brought to market from that date, rather than new cars already in production.
 
Because humans are irresponsible, government regulations must control them.
Big brother is watching.
 
Okay, cars bound for Europe must comply, but what about 'home market?'
(Assuming we're still out then....)
 
Yep their doing it here also! Not exactly that, but passing laws to protect ourselves from ourselves. I'll go out the way I want, not theirs!
 
Just thinking about when my GPS based speed limit/speed camera device decides that I'm not driving on the 70mph motorway flyover but the 30mph road that runs underneath. Link that to a speed limiter............

So this is supposed to cut road deaths in Europe. If you look at countries like Armenia with 18 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants compared to Germany at 3.7 then blanket legislation is not going to sort this out. And which countries will be getting automated driving systems? Certainly not the poorer countries with the high death rates where the real problems exist.

By the way when are we going to get safety belts on our motorbikes? You know it makes sense.........
 
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Just thinking about when my GPS based speed limit/speed camera device decides that I'm not driving on the 70mph motorway flyover but the 30mph road that runs underneath. Link that to a speed limiter............
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my Garmin regularly gives me a speed warning under those circumstances.

my VW Tiguan was worse when on Active Cruise Control it would acknowledge my turn signal as I was going past another vehicle and at the same time its cameras could see another vehicle outside of me turning into a link road - and it simply panicked and performed an emergency stop at 70mph with a line of cars behind me.

and how about France? They changed all the 90kph limits down to a blanket 80kph. Then realised that they still needed some roads at 90 and changed back, and are doing more from 80 to 90 all the time. On holiday my Garmin satnag struggled with the limits, and often gets very poor mapping from the French mapmakers.

I want to be able to make my mind up how fast I can go, and be able to accelerate over any limit if it is appropriate to do so to take evasive action.
 
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