[Travel] Bad news for petrolheads!

[drew]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47715415

Long time coming. Suspect the next move will be the fitting of telematics to all new cars and the data will have a massive bearing on your insurance.

 

[beorhthelm]

per mile road pricing closely behind.

 

[pearl]

thought this was going to be about the Pirates

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Speed limiters will be overridden I suspect.

Drivers love risking everyone else’s life,by speeding, too much.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Problem with speed limiters is that they are not 100% the same, all you will end up with is the same as lorries overtaking, taking 20 minutes to go past someone because your limiter is 1 mph faster. You'll still have older cars capable of higher speeds, result, absolute chaos on motorways and increased road rage.

 

[macky]

how will they make up for the shortfall in speeding fines

 

[dazzer6666]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47715415

Long time coming. Suspect the next move will be the fitting of telematics to all new cars and the data will have a massive bearing on your insurance.

Interesting looking at what data is already available from telemetric devices - I get a monthly report from Admiral based on junior's driving.....and an overall rating. Easy to see how this could be extended to all vehicles and shared with insurance companies

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

how will they make up for the shortfall in speeding fines

They’ll think of something else.

 

[DumLum]

how will they make up for the shortfall in speeding fines

Parking?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Parking?

Looking at them in a funny way?

 

[El Presidente]

how will they make up for the shortfall in speeding fines

Fewer accidents, less time taken up by the police and big savings for the NHS?

 

[cardboard]

Was on the radio this morning. What happens if you are overtaking a tractor on a country road, clear ahead then someone pulls out of a side road and you can't accelerate?

Pulling on to a motorway and the slip road is 40MPH. Would cause carnage.

People will be suing the car manufacturers if they get tickets because the GPS wasn't updated

I just don't see how it would work - old and new combined.

 

[marcos3263]

Now that I am an old man I don't need to speed anymore and pretty much potter about so it all sounds a good idea to me. I'm actually not sure if my Jaguar goes above the speed limit.............

 

[zefarelly]

Will I still be allowed to do 120 in my Mk1 Cortina? Or 80 on my Lambretta?

For everyday I may as well get a 2CV

 

[beorhthelm]

the article suggested the control would be a warning light, not physical restriction of speed.

 

[franks brother]

It’s just another level of control you’re under by the government. Bit by bit we are giving up our freedoms. Soon you’ll not even be allowed to look at porn without registering our name, address and have ID. It’s all about control.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

By 2022 most roads will be a) so congested, you won't be able to hit high speeds anyway or b) be occupied by fully autonomous or Level 2/3 autonomy, that people won't be driving anyway!

Volvo announced earlier this month it was going to introduce a 112km/h limit on its cars, so it doesn't surprise me that this news has come out, especially as speed limiter technology is already available in loads of cars anyway. Makes sense in many ways - too many lives lost on the road.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Was on the radio this morning. What happens if you are overtaking a tractor on a country road, clear ahead then someone pulls out of a side road and you can't accelerate?

You would brake? (surely the right answer in any situation like this? And you shouldn't be overtaking where there is a side road)

Pulling on to a motorway and the slip road is 40MPH. Would cause carnage.

Motoway slip road speed limit is 70mph

People will be suing the car manufacturers if they get tickets because the GPS wasn't updated
.

road signs and speedometers will still exist

 

[Two Professors]

The only downside I can see to all cars being limited to 20 mph in urban areas is that Stat Bore would start a new thread every day on how many he had passed.

 

[drew]

Was on the radio this morning. What happens if you are overtaking a tractor on a country road, clear ahead then someone pulls out of a side road and you can't accelerate?

Pulling on to a motorway and the slip road is 40MPH. Would cause carnage.

People will be suing the car manufacturers if they get tickets because the GPS wasn't updated

I just don't see how it would work - old and new combined.

I know Kalimantan has already answered this but do you really know of any examples where the speed limit for a motorway access road is 40mph?

As for your query re GPS, who do you blame now when you get a speeding ticket, the manufacturers of the speedometer?