Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars

Re:Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars by galdosdi on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:19PM (#40919829)

Or, just add speed bumps, curves, narrowings in the road, etc, to naturally bring the speed down. Then it works on everyone, whether they have the nanny tech or not, and you avoid the difficult problem of determining the speed limit accurately 100% of the time across every segment of road everywhere.

This is kind of like the (apocryphal) "NASA spent millions on a pen that would work without gravity; russians just used pencil" parable.

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Re:Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars by DoingIsLearning on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:42PM (#40920170)

Not sure why you are getting downvoted.

Urban design is a much more effective approach to saving lives (a large fraction of speeding deaths are pedestrians) with the bonus of giving large areas of the city back to pedestrians.

"Traffic calming" is a well established evidence based field. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming

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Re:Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars by galdosdi on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:14AM (#40945772)

Especially considering the top 5 threads on this article are all complaining about how speed limiting and speed limit recognition technology sucks. That's why I thought this was the most logical response.

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