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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @03:23PM
typical socialist scum. penalize everybody b/c some people wouldn't make the cut if people were free instead of letting nature take it's course. It's so much safer now that old people have no disincentive for getting out on the highway going 40 mph! Roads and cars aren't for everybody! cars are powerful machines that can kill. Roads are like a racing video game. if you can't haul ass like a madman you have no business driving! :)