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Red Merle



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All new cars to be fitted with speed limiters from 2022...

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

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And yes, it will affect our vehicles in the UK too, whether we’re in or out of the EU Big Cry

The reasons to hang on to my current Fatty keep piling up! Thumbs Up

Governments never cease to find new ways to make life difficult for motor manufacturers, but I think we can at least predict a new sales spike for 2021 Wink

Post #509967 27th Mar 2019 5:33am
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ilard



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Some of the speed limit signs in London are an absolute joke. For example, on a dual carriage way it may say 30 on a sign on the left and then 50 on a sign on the right. Imagine being forced to tootle along at 30 when HGV etc is howling around you at 60, I bet this will cause a few accidents itself.

In some cases it goes from 20 to 30 for like 50 metres and then back to 20 again. In some cases speed limit signs are rotated by up to 90 degrees, perhaps due to a collision... a driver can make sense of it, but would a camera?

As the AA is quoted, the best form of speed control is the driver's right foot (and using the thing between their ears).


grrr!

Post #509972 27th Mar 2019 8:30am
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Rosco



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Saw this earlier on the news, keeps me smiling all day these non-stories, so when the technology fails and the vehicle breaks the speed limit.... who is at fault?? Don't think this has been thought through. Rolling with laughter

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CS



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Current 405s have "intelligent speed limiter" switchable on and off, the manual makes it clear that it's the driver's responsibility to obey speed limits, i.e. one can't just leave the car to it. It depends on the satnav being up to date, and even when operational can be overridden by kickdown, e.g. when overtaking an HGV with oncoming traffic in the distance and then finding a small car in front of it that also needs to be passed to get back in again. The suggestion seems that one would have to switch it off every time one started the car, rather than the setting chosen remaining in place until changed. That would be a bore, but one would get used to it, as with the rear seat aircon switch off on late 322s. The real danger would be if one could no longer switch it off, "frustration causes accidents" as the Scottish road signs quite rightly say. Only Range Rovers since 1988

Post #509992 27th Mar 2019 11:08am
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