For those of you young enough?

[pritch]

Under fifty perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hY2HaR4K5c

As has already been mentioned, the next manufacturer to fit a "black box" recorder won't be the first.

[Gremlin]

Wonder what will happen if it fails... or gets rattled to death :scratch:

[pete376403]

Imagine the fun the state sponsored hackers in North Korea or Russia could have with that.

[jellywrestler]

i once went to an evening where they quized you on putting these things on cars, first step applys pressure to accelerator so you notice resistance to exceeding the sopeed limit, and are less likely to do it, the second was wired into the car. My answer was the second one thanks, i can hen put a brick on my accalerator pedal and the car will drive to exactly the speed limit, every where, and the elecronics will do the rest, no allowance for sub speed limit speeds, weather, traffic, road conditions visibility etc.
just dumbing us all down. this will be some twat without something to do at work, making things happen so he's busy.

[Laava]

just dumbing us all down. this will be some twat without something to do at work, making things happen so he's busy.
I bet he's highly paid too, doing that job that didn't exist until he talked some executive types into funding him. Makes me fucken sick, councils, govt depts etc are full of these arseholes.

[pete376403]

The electronics to do this already exist in all new cars and many new bikes. As soon as you have a drive-by-wire (ride-by-wire) system there's no direct connection between accelerator and throttle butterfly so just a matter of implementing the software controls. Speed monitoring, GPS to know where you are, ABS to apply brakes to slow you down, etc, it's all built in already. But rather than controlling the speed directly, I am sure Govts would rather let you drive as you will but send the ticket directly through the mail, maybe disable the engine until the bill is paid.

[merv]

I'm so glad to have been younger when I was, with all the freedoms we had in the 60s and 70s particularly.

[Hoonicorn]

First steps toward self-driving cars. And when you don't drive your own car, you won't need your own car. You'll subscribe to a service, Netflix but for cars. Ahhh the future... *eyes glaze over*.

[F5 Dave]

Rubbish. We already have taxis. What happens when everyone wants to go to work at the same time?

[onearmedbandit]

And the tech for self driving cars in the real world is years away. Notice how it was the hot topic a couple years back, now you just don't hear of it.

[jim.cox]

now you just don't hear of it.

Except in the accident reports

U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes (https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-opens-formal-safety-probe-into-tesla-autopilot-crashes-2021-08-16/)

[Hoonicorn]

Rubbish. We already have taxis. What happens when everyone wants to go to work at the same time?

Rubbish. We already have buses and trains. ;)

[rustys]

God its a fucked up world were living in now. :argh:

[F5 Dave]

Rubbish. We already have buses and trains. ;)
:scratch: um. , , ? Are you using that argument to support or dispute? Or was your previous post tongue in cheek?

[Hoonicorn]

:scratch: um. , , ? Are you using that argument to support or dispute? Or was your previous post tongue in cheek?

Once driverless cars are proven, governments will probably make them mandatory. Buses will probably be driverless too, just swipe on and off or use an app. Scooters and cars are already available on a rent per trip basis. "City Hop" and "Mevo" are just the start.

Like it or not, that's how I see things going. For the love of bikes and motoring, I hope I'm wrong.

[nerrrd]

He might be scaremongering. From what I read about this the only requirement so far is for a passive signal when you hit the speed limit similar to the sort of feedback you get in fancypants cars when you’re leaving a lane.

Surely there must be a liability or safety reason for NOT limiting the top speed of cars to the maximum speed limit in any given jurisdiction or they could have done it mechanically years ago.

IMHO we won’t see active speed control except in autonomous vehicles, and they’re still years away from proving they’re reliable enough to be let into the wild without a human co-pilot. Even then I wouldn’t bet against cheap human drivers trumping expensive autonomous vehicles for a long time after that.

Not sure why but I don’t see this ‘sinister plan to control everything in our lives’, to me it’s all tilting at windmills from a generation struggling to accept that society inevitably will change in ways that no longer suit them.

[dangerous]

fucking load a SHIT...

wont bother me anyway, I have brought my last ever new bike this year... the other bikes are 40yrs old..LOL... FUCK wait, I just had me my covid jab last week... NOOOOOO im fucked im speed restricted, they know what I think, wear I am... and that i'm still a virgin...


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