DON'T LET ISA DRIVE YOU OFF THE ROAD!

[Alan France]

My wife's Lexus camera "captures" speed signs but often gets them wrong. It's not unusual for it to display 90 mph on the motorway as it mistakes the red overhead speed sign for 40 as 90. So would her active radar cruise control then get confused and speed up to 90 if it saw the road ahead was clear?

 

I see Volvo highlights three key issues stopping their "nobody gets killed in a Volvo aim"

 

1. Speed (They will limit their cars to 112 mph)

2. Intoxication (Accidents up 6% in those States with legal Marijuana)

3. Driver distraction (Bigger media screens?!!!) 

[cast iron]

I'm all for it, sorry but, the amount of people who cant drive within speed limits. I have a sped limiter on my car and use it all the time, less time looking at the speedo more time concentrating on driving. The down side I see is less revenue from speeding fines will mean they look for another way to squeeze the money out of you

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

My most often deployment of cruise control in in 30 or 40mph areas, and in motorway roadworks with a reduced limit. As a cruising tool for long term use on motorway journeys I find it tens to aggravate attention lapses. 

[DamperMan]

If my daily had all this nanny state stuff it would not bother me as most the time.   Lucky to make it up to speed limit most the time around here.        I think it’s OVER nannying really.    As far as bad / dangerous driving is concerned most of what I see is not speed related.   Lack of road craft/ not concentrating  or being a TW.T are the main issues.     

[Blatman]

Yeah the wording on the petition is deliberate scare-mongering and holds no credibility. Doesn't mean it's a bad petition.

Couple more things to think about...

The Government petition website isn't run by the Government, it's a private company with no legislative force of any kind.

If the petition reaches enough signatures it gets discussed. That's a lot different to complied with and the Government have already said that in or out, this legislation will be ratified in the UK. So what we must do is encourage our local MP's to pledge to vote against this bill when they come looking for our votes in a couple of years.

In other words, we're doomed. So the simple answer is don't buy a car with this activated. 

My daily driver right now is 15 years old so a car from 2021 should last me until 2036 at least. In 17 years time I'll be old... If I really want to go fast I'll ride my motorbike which seems to not be included in this legislation. Come to think of it, I do that now...    

[Sparkymart]

Done

[DonPeffers]

Given the utter shambles in the current party system, NOW is the time for a motorists Political party to speak for the  near 40 million car users in UK fed up with ever more regs., red tape and restrictions; not to mention milking the motorist for tax.

[Blatman]

Most of those 40 million car users are the same people who used the local elections to protest against the Brexit shambles. They're not to be trusted as they seemingly can't differentiate between local politics and national politics...

[Captain Colonial]

4 hours ago, Blatman said:

Most of those 40 million car users are the same people who used the local elections to protest against the Brexit shambles. They're not to be trusted as they seemingly can't differentiate between local politics and national politics...

 

Hang on a minute.  The voters can’t be trusted because they expressed their displeasure at the shambles using the local elections, but they CAN be trusted because the majority who voted chose Leave, as did you, and therefore we shouldn’t have another referendum because they were right then?  You can’t eat your cake and have it too Blatters.  The voters are either trustworthy or they’re not.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

It's a matter of differentiation Scott. Voting on national matters at council elections is a wasted vote because it may send a signal but it can also mess up your otherwise satisfactory local structures. When asked 'IN' or 'OUT' there's no likelihood of people voting for nationalisation, foreign support, immigration or anything else - not even party politics. My main problem with the referendum was the total absence of considered and honest advice - t'was all biased propaganda. This seems to apply to all political 'discussions' nowadays.

 

The democratic system is a lousy one but it's less lousy than any other. For every dyed-in-the-wool socialist voter there's a balancing in-with-the-mother's-milk conservative (case deliberate) to negate them. Floating voters are usually either people who think before they vote or vacuous idiots who are impressed by a winning boyish smile. The latter are too many unfortunately.

[Blatman]

What he said ^^^

[Nemesis]

Done.

[pistonbroke]

Done , simply because its another  EU ruling !

[Lyonspride]

On 15/05/2019 at 12:08, cast iron said:

I'm all for it, sorry but, the amount of people who cant drive within speed limits. I have a sped limiter on my car and use it all the time, less time looking at the speedo more time concentrating on driving. The down side I see is less revenue from speeding fines will mean they look for another way to squeeze the money out of you

 

The system doesn't do braking for you, so plod will sit just inside speed limit changes and catch people day dreaming past, because it'll make people complacent, they'll stop paying attention and let the car do everything.
I think revenue from speeding fines will go up, not down.

[Blatman]

On 21/05/2019 at 12:43, Lyonspride said:

 

The system doesn't do braking for you, so plod will sit just inside speed limit changes and catch people day dreaming past, because it'll make people complacent, they'll stop paying attention and let the car do everything.
I think revenue from speeding fines will go up, not down.

 

If this really was the cause/effect wouldn't the cops forgo the speeding offence and charge everyone with the more serious offence of driving without due care and attention? 

Cop = "Didn't you see the change in speed limit as signified by the signs?"

Driver "No..."

Bingo...