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International road safety experts are calling for all vehicles to be fitted with speed warning devices, and drivers who exceed the speed limit may find their accelerators disabled by devices that are being considered in Australia.
According to the experts "Driving too fast causes 1.25 million road traffic deaths a year globally, and is a major contributor to the 6.9 per cent increase in deaths on Australian roads to 1275 in the year ending August 31."
The road safety experts called for all European vehicles to be fitted with Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) devices. These use speed sign recognition and satellite information to warn drivers with sounds or message if they exceed the limit.
The council launched a campaign on YouTube to build support for ISA, saying it had a huge potential to save lives.
Some devices, which have already been integrated into some new models of Ford cars, have an override function that can stop speeding drivers from using the accelerator until they return to the speed limit.
Anyone want this fitted to their car? I can see problems...
(Score: 5, Informative) by MostCynical on Tuesday October 04 2016, @09:23AM
don't forget "sustained loss of traction" (aka burnout)
(also an offence in New Zealand)
http://www.geoffharrison.com.au/blog/burnout/ [geoffharrison.com.au]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @09:43AM
Modded informative, printed, and soon to be mailed to the American Legislative Exchange Council, thanks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @11:58AM
In Australia its "Failure to maintain full control of vehicle"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday October 04 2016, @02:40PM
This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
This has led to some interesting consequences. For instance, when the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Tralal literally (it said "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists: instead of "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists"), they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf.”
Show me a person who thinks they're ever in complete control of the vehicle, and I'll show you somebody who doesn't know much about how their vehicle works.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @12:44AM
> Show me a person who thinks they're ever in complete control of the vehicle, and I'll show you somebody who doesn't know much about how their vehicle works.
I was fortunate once to have some rides with Mario Andretti in a few different sports cars...on a wet race track with some puddles. First thing he did was hunt for the stability control button and turn it off--he knew that he was much better than any computer in those conditions. In this particular Acura NSX he commented that it tended to push a little (lose front traction before rear) and then demonstrated while braking through three turns, each tighter than the one before. First lap he used the same braking point as with the previous car (similar overall performance) and missed the final turn apex by about 3 feet (ran a little wide). Second lap he started braking about 3 feet earlier and had the inside front wheel just grazing the inside curb.
All this while different wheels were alternately gripping and hydroplaning, and the car was yawing back and forth, slowing down from about 90 mph to 35 for the last/tightest corner in the sequence.
He was in control, he knew it, there was no question about it.