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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by kennywinker on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:23PM (#24603234)
I hear what you're saying, but I don't actually think speed limits solve the problem. There are parts of the downtown core in my city that have 30kph speed limits, but cars regularly drive 60kph anyway. The only effective way to lower the speed of drivers in shared spaces would be electronic speed limiting, or (perhaps simultaneously) a transition to low speed vehicles.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by burlesona on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:34PM (#24603278)
This is actually not true, the speeding cars are at least equally a street design failure.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/1/8/new-20-mph-stre...

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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by Igelau on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:19PM (#24603456)
Yeah that "safer street" is still going to get hit at 50 miles an hour by a lot of people.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by kennywinker on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:45PM (#24603317)
Instead of redesigning ALL of our streets to trick drivers to slow down, we could just IDK, slow the cars down? Seems simpler to me tbh.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by giancarlostoro on Sunday September 27, 2020 @06:48AM (#24605702)
And now you either have to convince everyone to change their cars or their engines in their cars. These things will not go over well with those in poverty.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by rsynnott on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:06PM (#24603395)
Automated speed cameras that issue fines/penalty points based on your number plate? Those are a thing in many countries.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by johnofthesea on Sunday September 27, 2020 @12:40PM (#24607936)
Narrowing the lines also helps.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by stefan_ on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:46PM (#24603322)
...so lets do that? Your toy drone from Amazon can't fly near an airport, why would your 50k car accelerate past the limit in a city.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by rootusrootus on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:10PM (#24603645)
My 50K car sometimes decides while driving down the freeway that it is in fact on the street next to the freeway, and should be going 25mph. Maybe we should wait a little bit on trying to use bleeding edge technology to force cars to drive a certain way.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by adrianN on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:25AM (#24604901)
It's not hard to make these systems fail in a safe way.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by stefan_ on Saturday September 26, 2020 @11:01PM (#24603879)
There is nothing bleeding edge about GPS geo-fences and limiters.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by jhayward on Sunday September 27, 2020 @12:18PM (#24607765)
There certainly is if you're talking about knowing the difference between lanes, or between an elevated section or the surface street below, or any number of other things that affect the speed designation of the roadway.
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