EU to implement intelligent speed adaption tech

[jaws7777]

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"The European Commission is onboard with new road-safety regulations that will mandate that vehicles are equipped with life-saving tech, which it says could have as much impact as laws forcing car makers to install seat belts. "

"The laws would also mandate that cars, vans, trucks and buses are equipped with an aircraft-like 'blackbox' to retain data about accidents after they occur."

 

[jaws7777]

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[tlindsey]

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That's ironic especially for Germany who has the autobahn no speed limit.

 

[Warborg]

There are talks that America could follow

 

[krichardson]

That's ironic especially for Germany who has the autobahn no speed limit.

First thing that came to my mind after reading this.

 

[jaws7777]

I wonder what would happen when theres an emergency... say getting to a hospital.

 

[Dloks]

That's ironic especially for Germany who has the autobahn no speed limit.

First thing that came to my mind after reading this.

Totally, considering that Europe has lower accidents rate than America.

 

[esoxlucius]

Their ultimate dream, and that's exactly what it is, a dream, is to have on board technology that physically makes it impossible for a vehicle to exceed the speed limit on any road you're travelling on. That would be the ultimate way to prevent speeding yeah? But then they say that the system can be manually overridden by the driver simply by pressing down on the accelerator, which is exactly what 99% of drivers are going to do.

They could end up potentially investing billions and billions of cash worldwide on this....for nothing, simply because us lot are not going to be dictated to by a black box, or whatever it is, trying to make our vehicle go one speed when we think it would be better to go a little faster.