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Mandatory speed limiters come into force in the EU and Northern Ireland (eandt.theiet.org)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is dumb.

I have a 2021 SEAT Leon, my dad has a 2016 Volvo V90.

Both of our cars have cameras for lane keeping and reminding us of the speed limit.

Neither works 100%

My car recognize the "end of no overtaking" sign as being a speed limit sign for 90km/h

Then there is an area where it allways detects a change in the speed limit despite there being none, it is from 60 to 50, not a huge deal, but there is nothing stopping it from going from 120 to 30 instantly.

Then there are time when you might need to speed for safety.

I have been in that situation, example:

Me and my dad was driving on the back roads between Uppsala and Stockholm at night, dad was driving, there was an oncomming car when suddenly dad accellerated hard, swerved into the oncomming lane and back again.

There had been a moose that decided to cross the road just as two cars passed eachother, we would not have had time to stop, the only thing to do was to speed and swerve.

The moose incident may be an edge case, but the road sign detection issues are not and the EU should wait untill the system is reliable before forcing it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Same here my mum just got a new electric BMW and the speed limit the car thinks to itself is constantly not being 100% correct. It just makes up speed limits sometimes.