Gonna cause tailbacks! Just like those “smart” cruise controls that keeps a certain distance between you and the car in front. So you get brake lights coming on for no apparent reason causing a chain reaction and a traffic jam 5 mins later.
It will never happen by 2022 - car manufacturers and roads across Europe will simply go into melt down... It might happen by 2050 - but by then we'll all be in driverless flying iRobot car anyway.
The sad thing is that the bean counters actually believe its going to make for safer driving........what they really need to do is weed out the idiots who dont bother looking and text/do makeup etc while driving and just the plain ignorant...but then i guess that's what big brother is heading to wards ...just being passengers and take any joy away from driving/riding.
The same thing applies in my part of the USA. The only time a bridge is repaired/rebuilt is about 5 minutes before it collapses! I understand why so many choose to drive massive 4 wheel drive trucks and SUV's, It's strictly to handle the potholes. Looks like the infrastructure problems are the same all around the world.
So will there be some control regarding a minimum speed limit and also moving out of the middle lane? Both equally hazardous in their own right.
Bikes use speed for steering control, imagine safe cornering at the speed limit when you suddenly get a power drop mid-corner because your bike says you are not allowed to do 32 mph
Surely the Germans wouldn't allow this, given their autobahns (or would there be an exemption just for them or if you were driving a Merc, BMW, Audi or Porsche.... ?).
Surely the Germans wouldn't allow this, given their autobahns (or would there be an exemption just for them or if you were driving a Merc, BMW, Audi or Porsche.... ?).
Yes and an example of this I remember was when the Honda Hornet 250 first came out. It looked great, a friends girlfriend bought one and she offered me a go on it. It had the feel and weight of a full size bike with a pathetic engine. Being used to a 750 I struggled at the time going around corners as it had no pull to drive you out of the other side resulting in 50p corners.
A wagon driver friend told me that there were a number of cameras knocking about in the center of roundabouts etc. that were already set up for average speeds between point to point. Apparently the cops can link into these cameras whilst sat in their cars and view the location of certain suspect vehicles before they even have to move off the spot. Can anyone verify this?
Hmm I can see it now, some computer malfunction every affected car grinding to a halt in the outside lane getting slammed up the rear by pre 2020 cars. And what happens during a blizzard?
Of course computers are never wrong.....except in new 737s it seems poor b*****s I first came across this in the National space centre exhibition a few years ago...the Euro superstate GPS system Gallileo to watch everything that is monitored by it car speed data etc it will automatically fine you, know where you are etc etc all the time Add the cashless society to that and mobile phones internet and call monitoring...no doubt we will soon get electronic ration books to control alcohol and calorie intake Bikes baaaah ban those things Oh and we need handrails on Striding edge and all other mountain paths Jeeeez we are sleepwalking into the biggest breech of civil liberties and nanny governance by a superstate in history
According to the BBC what is being proposed will allow the driver to override the speed limiter. However, speeding fines will increase, so it seems that this will just be another mechanism to automate the criminalisation, prosecution, and taxing (via fines) of the general public.
The new rules in the form of a regulation have been agreed by the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council, but they still have to be approved by the Member States and an EU parliamentary committee. The rules must then be given the green light from the entire parliament and the Council of Ministers. If that happens as of 2022 cars, buses, vans and lorries would have to have built-in equipment to "warn" the driver. Bikes are exempt!
My car already has road sign recognition built in. It reads those speed limit stickers you get on the back of overseas trucks a lot of the time and tells me I'm in a "90" limit. My TomTom thinks it knows the speed limits based on my GPS coordinates and warns me when I'm over but even though I keep the maps up to date it is so often wrong on that score. Imagine the confusion and arguments it will cause about who's right between the GPS mapping module and the signage cameras in the black box in your future vehicle...
If the likes of VW can't get the emissions figures right what chance is there of the correct speed limit? Naturally if you are caught speeding then it will be a case of taking the manufacturer to court and not the driver, yes? I can see this will be fun.
