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: 4, Insightful) by stormreaver on Tuesday October 04 2016, @03:51PM
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That is all a red herring, and is almost entirely irrelevant. The entire argument is assuming that speeds are within the limits of the machine being driven. It's already understood that machines have limits, so that is not at all relevant to the discussion.
Following too closely and speed are two entirely separate issues. Conflating the two is how we end up with absurd speed laws.