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[...] It is clear that a significant minority of British drivers put their time and their 'needs' above the safety of other road users and pedestrians. In a few decades, the driverless car will be perfected and the driven car must be made obsolete, preferably by law.
Until then the Government and the insurance industry should take radical steps to help residents of rural and urban communities reclaim their neighbourhoods from the lorries, the lunatics - and those Great British Motorists who like toddlers think they can do what they like, and explode with rage and indignation when questioned about it.
Black boxes compulsory in every vehicle, with improved technology that detects speed limit breaking and careless or aggressive driving.
Insurance companies encouraged to hike premiums immediately and punitively as bad driving is revealed.
Insurance companies obliged to hand over to DVLA and / or police all data that reveals traffic offences and dangerous driving.
Legal framework to allow prosecution and driving bans relating to offences revealed by black boxes.
Legal changes to encourage use of dashcam / helmet-cam / CCTV evidence to prosecute motorists.
Comprehensive review of 30mph speed limits, with local consultations on which should be lowered to 20mph.
Limit revs to 3,000rpm on all vehicles - as condition of passing MOT - to cut noise and dangerous acceleration.
Funding for technology that will limit all vehicles automatically to the local speed limit (and in the case of national speed limits, a safe speed for the road conditions); and will prevent heavy goods vehicles from using inappropriate rural and urban roads.
Source: This is Money
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @09:20PM
who can't pedal 3000RPM, and who would greatly enjoy pedalling past all those stalled vehicles that can't move efficiently on 3000RPM or less, I am all for *JUST THAT ITEM* in the wish list. Now mind you Tesla and the electric car companies can easily work around that, as can Turbodiesels and any large displacement car engines (as mentioned elsewhere.)
That said, I would find gleeful joy in watching all those drivers try and work around it, burn up their automatic transmissions from running them too hot (g/l getting overdrive engaged at those low rpms/torque), stall their cars if manual from trying to drive them below stall engine power, etc.
Agree with the rest, this sounds like a dystopian nightmare though. How did this get posted to SN? Is someone lobbying for this at the government level?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @10:39PM
I assume it was for most of us to point and laugh at, and possibly as a warning for UK readers to find the idiot responsible and give him a swift ejection from whatever seat said idiot squats over.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday August 22 2016, @12:28AM
At over 120RPM, you burn far too much sugar/energy to last any length of time (too much like sprinting). I learned this the hard way after learning that below 60RPM (too much like rock climbing) is also bad.
Effective Cycling [soylentnews.org] by John Forester has a chapter on choosing your pedal rate.