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: 2) by dry on Wednesday October 05 2016, @02:11AM
My memory of when there was an ad campaign was 2 slow seconds, eg "1 and 2 and". And that was before there was ABS and even (front) disc brakes were still a new thing on normal cars
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday October 07 2016, @10:07PM
When I took driver's ed about ten years ago we were taught that it used to be 2 seconds based on the assumption that you wouldn't need to stop entirely in that space, you just needed to be able to react and hit your brakes, and then you and the car ahead of you would slow down to a stop together.
The current guideline is apparently 4 seconds, based on the assumption that the guy in front of you might not be making a controlled stop. If he hits a concrete barrier and goes 60 to 0 in an instant, you won't have any hope of stopping in only 2 seconds. Not the most likely scenario ever, but I suppose it happens.
Of course, around here people seem to think two car lengths at 70MPH means you're leaving room for them to merge in...