Speed limit to be lowered to 20mph in Wales

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We are into safety issues should this happen. Over the years I've had to accelerate to get out of dangerous situations, particularly on motorways, and as a result exceeded the speed limit. Lord knows what might have happened if a speed limiter had kicked in at such times.

Ah yes but would those situations had occurred if everybody was going the speed limit thanks to their limiter

[JamesWales]

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Spend limiters work like a SatNav does. It knows the speed limit of the road you’re on and limits the speed of your car appropriately. The tech has been around for years but no government is willing to mandate it because it won’t win them votes. Only a matter or time though.

Like I said, I can see the benefit in cars being limited to say 80mph, but what on earth do we gain from the above?

[Hilts]

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Speed limiters or some sort of tech to identify youve broken the speed limit is inevitable.

[Feedback]

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It doesn't require any surveillance, the tech already exists. There are no civil liberty concerns in the same way that there are no civil liberty concerns in not being able to carry a Swiss Army knife to a football match. It's a safety issue and you know this really.

So the use of GPS tracking isnt an issue? Of course it is.

[Wales-Bales]

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Spend limiters work like a SatNav does.

I'm totally against spend limiters, affectionately known as the other half in my case, and she does work like a SatNav, as she is always phoning me up to see where I am.

[UNDERHILL1927]

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Like I said, I can see the benefit in cars being limited to say 80mph, but what on earth do we gain from the above?

Some people seem to want to live in a stale world where they’re totally governed by others.

[Citizen's Nephew]

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So the use of GPS tracking isnt an issue? Of course it is.

Sure, if you don't want to be tracked than don't own a device or item with GPS tracking technology. SatNavs and phones do this already. It's worth doing some research for yourself and understanding the tech. a bit more. Your TV, your fridge, your home security system is tracking your comings and goings all the time.

Another tech. will be black box technology. That's a different ball game. Tesla are leaders in Autonomous Driving which is another fascinating technology which will need to have black boxes to be examined in the case of accidents and technical failures. This stuff logs everything you do.

Edit: add CCTV and facial recognition software (already in use for congestion charges) is worth mentioning too.

[+ the native hipster]

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the stopping distance of modern sports cars are about 50% shorter than the highway codes figures so for safety reasons the welsh government should give free or heavily subsidised sports cars to all drivers

[Lither_1927]

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I can’t wait to see the fallout when they make speed limiters mandatory. Bring it on, I say.

There will come a time when people will say’ I can’t believe people were once given the ability to drive however fast they wanted and let loose’. A bit like how we can’t imagine driving without a seatbelt today.

What if you have an emergency like driving a heart attack victim to hospital in the middle of the night?
Or you're on an empty motorway at midnight?

[lisvaneblue]

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Ah yes but would those situations had occurred if everybody was going the speed limit thanks to their limiter

~Maybe so?

But situations vary both with road conditions and vehicles. For example a car can be limited to 70mph on a motorway, but what about a car towing a caravan. The limiter is on the car set at 70, whereas the speed limit if towing is 60mph

[delmbox]

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~Maybe so?

But situations vary both with road conditions and vehicles. For example a car can be limited to 70mph on a motorway, but what about a car towing a caravan. The limiter is on the car set at 70, whereas the speed limit if towing is 60mph

Yeah but the limiter doesn't mean it can ONLY go 70 you maddo

[lardy]

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~Maybe so?

But situations vary both with road conditions and vehicles. For example a car can be limited to 70mph on a motorway, but what about a car towing a caravan. The limiter is on the car set at 70, whereas the speed limit if towing is 60mph

So basically the same situation that we have now?

[lisvaneblue]

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Yeah but the limiter doesn't mean it can ONLY go 70 you maddo

Of course..but it does mean the limiter will allow a car towing a caravan to travel at up to 70mph when the speed limiting for a vehicle towing is 60mph

[poc]

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i stayed at the speed limit on a trip to and back from porthcawl i have to say there was many more cars and especially motor bikes driving closer to me behind than usual

[Feedback]

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Sure, if you don't want to be tracked than don't own a device or item with GPS tracking technology. SatNavs and phones do this already. It's worth doing some research for yourself and understanding the tech. a bit more. Your TV, your fridge, your home security system is tracking your comings and goings all the time.

Another tech. will be black box technology. That's a different ball game. Tesla are leaders in Autonomous Driving which is another fascinating technology which will need to have black boxes to be examined in the case of accidents and technical failures. This stuff logs everything you do.

Edit: add CCTV and facial recognition software (already in use for congestion charges) is worth mentioning too.

I'm very much aware of the tech but thanks for your condescending reply.