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All New Cars Could be Fitted With Speed Limiters
Posted in General News on Friday, April 22nd, 2022
All new cars could have speed limiters fitted. A consultation is set to be launched enquiring as to whether speeding drivers should have their engine power reduced or have warning lights illuminate. These systems would be based around ‘intelligent speed assistance’ these systems use GPS location data and cameras to detect whether a car is travelling within the designated speed limit. If the system was introduced drivers would be able to deactivate it, but they would have to do this each time they started their car. The proposals have come under fire from certain vehicle safety experts with one example being Conservative MP and Chair of the Fair Fuel UK Motorists and Hauliers all-party parliamentary group, Craig Mackinlay. Mackinley commented: “This will completely destroy the luxury car market, and I think there are so many aspects of the anti-driver campaign now that are coming to the fore. This is just more Big Brother in your cockpit. We’ll see more of this if we go up the route of road pricing. I don’t think people have thought of the freedom aspects of all of this. It just sounds very un-Conservative.” Conversely a spokesperson for the Department for Transport said “The UK’s departure from the EU provides us with the platform to capitalise on our regulatory freedoms. We’re currently considering the vehicle safety provisions included in the EU’s General Safety Regulation and will implement requirements that are appropriate for Great Britain and improve road safety.”
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Brian Bremer
Monday, April, 25th, 2022
Having recently driven my Daughters new car, fitted with all sorts of “driver assists” like “lane keep assist”, I found the drive most annoying. Yes this device could be deactivated, but as soon as you restart the car, it’s back on. We a,ready have so much technology piled into cars, “ because manufacturers perceive that we desire them”, No this is a case of install something another maker doesn’t have so more of our cars will be sold. There are so many distractions both in cars and along the public highway, that motorists are missing crucial and sometimes with fatal results, simply trying to keep up with the technology,the constantly changing rules etc. Why do we need speed limiters, when journey times are already slower than Victorian travel in horse drawn coaches? A journey to work 20 years ago of 8 miles used to take me 15 minutes, now it’s more like 30 minutes, all speed limiters will achieve is more lengthy tailbacks and longer queues at traffic lights and Junctions. The true problem on highways are the so called Specialists in urban travel, most of whom do not even drive. How can a 20 something who has only had at best 2 years highway experience possibly understand what has taken us through many years of driving knowledge think they know better?
Ian Mchardy
Monday, April, 25th, 2022
You See what speed limiters do to hgv's if they need to over take its a struggle. So imagine if cars were all the same and you say had to overtake a slow moving vehicle e.g. tractor crane etc that would make it so dangerous for all involved. If the governer was set for say 78mph motorways 68 for normal roads and leave 30 or 20 for towns then that would make more sence.
david hills
Friday, April, 29th, 2022
This ill thought out plan is just so dangerous that it beggars belief
Tom Reaney
Monday, April, 25th, 2022
speed reduced to comply with limit.
Anthony Edmund Deaves
Friday, April, 29th, 2022
Sometimes you need the speed to get out of trouble and could be dangerous thing to limit a car to thirty miles and hours. Speed does kill but sometimes you need to avoid it from having an accident.
david hills
Saturday, April, 30th, 2022
This ill thought out plan is just so dangerous that it beggars belief