> The only question that matters is would it result in fewer road deaths?

Speed doesn’t kill, it’s the sudden stopping that does.

That’s a “think of the children” type of an argument. Remind me: how many people die because of guns every day in the US? On a serious note, how many of those road accidents are caused by exceeding the speed by less than 10%? You see, there is a difference between speeding and reckless driving.

Neither you nor me live in the US. They have other options to reduce those deaths. There’s no reason to drive a 4 ton EV truck made out of stainless steel doing 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds.

I don’t care about this particular edge case. The idea of being remote controlled by buerocrats is appalling to me.

I live in Europe. Regulations here make Teslas slam on the brakes when the road is curved by more than x degrees, and break off a lane change apruptly if they take longer than x seconds. The intentions behind these rules written by some buerocrat in Brussels surely were as good as those behind the cookie banner.

I’m glad I still get to override those rules with my pedals and steering wheel.