EU Speed Limiters
 

All new cars will have a mandatory speed limiter from July 2022.

New European legislation will indeed force manufacturers to integrate a speed limit control system.

https://www.diglogs.com/france/all-n...o-more-excess/

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Second hand car prices to rise even further?

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A bit pointless condisering this.

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Will be interesting to see if this is carried over to the UK or not.

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Depends if the UK Government can supplement the loss of earnings through redundant speed traps by something else ;)

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i wouldn't buy a car with it fitted.

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A thriving market in hacked boxes beckons.

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That would invalidate your car insurance, surely?

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Why hack it when you can (apparently) turn it off?

Good point though, and some will be daft enough to purchase them ;)

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It's the same as some of the other features - my car has lane assist that's on every time I start the car, but I can turn it off and on after that.

The braking safety features I can't turn off.

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Yep, most 'driver assist/safety features' are turned off in ours.

The low tyre pressure warning came on last week . . . a massive 1psi low on one wheel . . . that cost me a quid to pump up :rolleyes:
MOT failure if that's turned off though I think

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It’s dangerous, there may be times when you need a burst of speed to get you out of trouble.

Also Ferrari, Lamborghini etc will go out of business.

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That one on mine is the more basic version that bases the tyre pressure of maths rather than having the monitors in the wheel. Not sure what it counts as too low pressure as they were well below the recommended pressures the other day (due to normal activity) and it didn't go off.
Which is why I assume it says "If the driver does not decelerate, the system will reduce the power available and make it more difficult to use the pedal." i.e. you can still do the burst of speed, but it's the sustained excess speed you can't do.

As for high performance cars, if it's based on cameras and gps, then I'd expect it turns itself off on tracks and other private locations where there isn't a limit.

On the public roads those cars would be subject to the same speed limits as everyone else.

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My car uses this to display the current limit (on the sat nav)
I've noticed it be incorrect on the odd times I use the sat nav, so it doesnt inspire much confidence. I would think you could also just block the camera.

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Mine has both too and will flip from what is a temporary limit or the last one it saw, to the one that's supposed to be in the sat nav.

Sounds like they're aiming for something similar for all cars so I'd hope they do some serious testing to make sure the consistency gets better.