Get Your Speeding In Now While You Can

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  1. BonnieCat

    BonnieCat Crème de la Crème

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    No more speeding! EU orders that all new cars will be fitted with mandatory technology that will force you stick to EVERY speed limit from 2022
    • New models sold in the EU will feature Intelligent Speed Assistance limiters
    • European Parliament, Council and Commission approved legislation for them
    • Vehicles will be slowed in accordance with speed limits using GPS and traffic sign recognition cameras
    • Models sold in the UK are likely to have the same technology after the Vehicle Certification Agency said it would mirror EU rules post-Brexit
    Just spotted this in the wonderful and always 100% accurate Daily Fail
     
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  2. John T

    John T Senior Member

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    Probably correct

    Its part of what the EU GPS Gallileo project is all about

    Should make older stuff worth a fortune assuming you can still buy petrol of course
     
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  3. dirty big hands

    dirty big hands Active Member

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    But we're leaving the EU.
    Apparently.
    Maybe?
    Eventually.
     
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  4. Bad Billy

    Bad Billy Baddest Member

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    I am sure after market signal jammers will be made.
    I'm gonna go live in America!
     
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  5. Samz

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    What will police do with all their “safety” cameras?
    How will they get around the loss of prosecutions and income.
    Some eurocrat hasn’t thought this through properly! ;)
     
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  6. steve lovatt

    steve lovatt Something else

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    If it's in the Mail it's all b*llocks! Probably on the same page as the next ice age coming in October :confused:
     
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  7. Eldon

    Eldon Elite Member

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    Same as my immediate thoughts.

    So if this came to be what would the police and government do for funds, what alternative way can they dream up such a lucrative pot of cash?
     
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  8. Sandi T

    Sandi T It's ride o'clock somewhere!
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    Perhaps the government and police will start running "tracks" where people who actually enjoy driving and riding (and don't want to be toted around in a self-driving vehicle) can go to go fast and have fun. Of course, we'll be charged to do so, perhaps as a way to make up for the loss of the speeding ticket revenue stream!
     
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  9. Eldon

    Eldon Elite Member

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    Great idea :p
     
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  10. Sandi T

    Sandi T It's ride o'clock somewhere!
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    And....I live in the U.S. and here anyway what I see as way more problematic these days is the massive number of (so-called) drivers that are texting and talking and watching YouTube on their phones while they are driving. Why that isn't considered as much a problem as speeding is beyond me.
     
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  11. Sandi T

    Sandi T It's ride o'clock somewhere!
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    And....I live in the U.S. and here anyway what I see as way more problematic these days is the massive number of (so-called) drivers that are texting and talking and watching YouTube on their phones while they are driving. Why that isn't considered as much a problem as speeding is beyond me.
     
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  12. steve lovatt

    steve lovatt Something else

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    Will only apply to new cars so keep your old car and continue to speed as you see fit! :cool:
     
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  13. Rich Bryce

    Rich Bryce Dead Eye Dick

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    The Police do not get direct income from speeding fines. It all goes in to a central Government pot at the Treasury. Over £100m p.a. is colected. The Department of Transport is at pains to point out that central Government also allocates roughly the same amount each year to local authorities for road safety programmes.
     
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  14. Big Sandy

    Big Sandy WOOF! WOOF!

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    Fuck off you nosy cunt
    Ach, I dunno. 2022mph is pretty nippy.

    :p
     
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  15. Judd Dredd

    Judd Dredd Giver of Drugs, Vaccines and Hard Truths

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    Cant see Ferrari following this somehow.....
     
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  16. Tiglet

    Tiglet Vintage Member

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    A similar type of idea was banded about a few years ago for bikes,restricting them to whatever the road speed limit is you were travelling along.

    Guess where that stupid idea came from : unamused:
     
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  17. BonnieCat

    BonnieCat Crème de la Crème

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    Well I know one thing none of that money goes on road repairs. The road surfaces around Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire is appalling and I suspect the rest of the UK too. Over here in the Netherlands even the cycle tracks are well maintained and potholes on roads are quickly repaired.
    I wonder if this new ruling will apply to motorbikes.
    I wonder if they’ve thought about having some device fitted to vehicles which monitors vehicle speeds (using GPS) and checks that against speed limits. Then a fine is automatically sent out to speeders.
    Over here if you get caught by a speed camera you automatically get sent a fine to your house. We don’t have points on licenses.
     
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  18. BonnieCat

    BonnieCat Crème de la Crème

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    It wasn’t you again was it??
     
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  19. Tiglet

    Tiglet Vintage Member

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    We’ll have less of that from you young lady ;):)
     
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  20. Tiglet

    Tiglet Vintage Member

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    It was a bright idea suggested by you Europeans :p
     
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