Mandatory speed limiters on EU cars from 2024

Re:Mandatory speed limiters on EU cars from 2024 by ben_w on Friday July 05, 2024 @09:35AM (#40882559)

I've met one person in real life (if Cambridge UK counts as "real life" :P) who was vocal about preferring incandescent to energy saving; you will probably be unsurprised to learn that they voted Leave.

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Re:Mandatory speed limiters on EU cars from 2024 by aleph_minus_one on Friday July 05, 2024 @09:59AM (#40882787)

Indeed: there exist quite some very vocal people who deeply abhor being patronised (e.g. by the EU).

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Re:Mandatory speed limiters on EU cars from 2024 by ben_w on Saturday July 06, 2024 @03:56AM (#40888876)

Patronised?

I could see why people might feel that way about seatbelts (e.g. people feeling "don't tell me I'm a bad driver!"), but I don't see how that feeling could attach to environmental issues like the aggregate emissions from (reducing from 100W to 10W * 2.5h/day * about 1 bulb/person * 400 million people =) 3.75 GW over the continent?

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Re:Mandatory speed limiters on EU cars from 2024 by rsynnott on Saturday July 06, 2024 @08:38AM (#40890083)

Well, I think to some extent, the eurosceptic UK tendency, encouraged by the tabloids, was to seek out things to be offended by (sometimes simply making them up; see bendy bananas.)

Never really heard of this anywhere in Europe _outside_ the UK, tho.

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