RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)

date posted 25th January 2003 11:58

If no one could exceed the speed limit, zero income from speed cameras...so
the government wouldn't allow it.

Car manufacturers won't want it, as they will struggle to market cars to all
the boy racers, if say cars had reasonable speed limits.

Marketdroids will struggle to glamorise cars if speeding advertising
couldn't be used anymore...

No I can't see it ever take off.



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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)


i've yet to work out why the hell speed limiters aren't placed in cars - we
have the tech.

make sure a car is never capable of going about x mph above an areas speed
limit - iirc they designed something like this in north-west university a
couple of years back. the government as ever has shown no interest in it
(perhaps auto manufacturers help fun the new labour project?)

seems sensible to me, stops drivers speeding and would stop most of the
joyriders from trashing cars, save a few lives and save thousands of pounds
since speeding advertsing would no longer be needed.

certainly a hard-core criminal element would find ways of circumventing it
but the more opportunistic types wouldnt
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Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:34 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)


>
> >
> >
> > Fundamentally, yes! See my other posting - speed limits are fixed
> > across a broad spectrum of vehicular traffic. Apart from restrictions
> > on HGVs, coaches, etc this entitles a mediocre, ancient car (with an
> > MOT) to drive at the same speeds as a far more sophisticated car when,
> > in some cases, they're just not capable of it.
> >
>
> Here's what I know:
>
> If she had been driving 10 miles an hour faster, she wouldn't be here
> now.
>
> If she hadn't been driving a car with ABS, Airbags and crumple zones she
> wouldn't be here now.
>
> If the other girl driving the Van, 21yrs old, angry cos she'd lost a job
> and possibly high on pot, hadn't pulled a u turn across the dual
> carriageway in front of her she'd still be fit and well.
>
> As it is all those things are true and we've had to deal with the
> consequences of some other idiot driving stupidly out of nowhere right
> into her path for the last 7 years - no full recovery for us, no
> pleasure in driving anymore, no company car, no job in fact, and no
> foreign holidays either.
>
> A lot of the time it's not your driving that's the problem, it's
> somebody else's.
>
> The faster you are going the further you travel while reacting and it's
> nothing to do with the car at that point.
>
> Once you start acting then the safety features are a bonus, but when a
> big solid van suddenly appears in the middle of the road in front of you
> just as you crest the hill, you'd better pray you're not travelling too
> fast.
>
> If speed camera's get people to slow down I say it's a good thing,
> because idiotic driving doesn't just affect you, it can affect everyone
> around you too.
>
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