For all new cars from 2022 - how long before it also affects motorcycles.....hmm
https://www.confused.com/on-the-road/safety/speed-limiters-mandatory-on-new-cars?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=brandawareness&utm_term=20211003&utm_content=september_2021_newsletter_bulletin_customers
That sounds absolutely terrible, just hope it doesn't eventuate. Imagine pulling out to pass & the system decides you're too fast & cuts the power.
Just imagine not being in control of your own vehicle. It a big NO from me :furious:
NO is not on the options list Froudy
Be pleased that it will be "Safer for you" :thumbs_down:
Speed limiter is just normal on my 1.6 Corolla. Having said that, i did get a photo, 74 in 70 zone. Was uphill also. $200 and a point off licence.
Quote from: Kiwifruit on Monday, 04 October 2021, 06:30 PM
NO is not on the options list Froudy
Be pleased that it will be "Safer for you" :thumbs_down:
I think my Astra VXR is "limited" to 155mph. I can deal with that :imrgreen:
Your photo would cost more than mine Froudy. Thats one fast car.
I find I got a family portrait taken of me and the bride recently 91in an 80 $80.i havn't got the heart to tell her. I certainly wouldn't have been going that fast without her on the back :angry:
Don't buy new, that's what I say :whistling:
Hey!@ froudy my 5series doesn't have a limiter the book says it maxes at 152(530d) not that I've ever done that :whistling:
I guess that with most governments unable to control their spending, sorry i meant excessive waste of the taxpayers money they see road safety, and remember they are making it "safer for you" road policing has become the best source of revenue after direct taxation. Unless you wear a gang patch in which case you can do what you like.
Getting a $200 fine for 4kph over is the fastest way to build resentment .
I use cruise control everywhere ,even in 50 kph areas......
Ain't buying any new cars if I can help it.....
Mind you our police are too busy with the coni virus shit these days and all the local natives that are trying to change the NZ into a maori kindom (that ain't gunna fly ).
Quote from: froudy on Monday, 04 October 2021, 06:56 PM
Quote from: Kiwifruit on Monday, 04 October 2021, 06:30 PM
NO is not on the options list Froudy
Be pleased that it will be "Safer for you" :thumbs_down:
I think my Astra VXR is "limited" to 155mph. I can deal with that :imrgreen:
I believe my XJR is limited to the same, never bothered to check yet though.
Funny, all my vehicles are limited by the handbrake sitting in the passenger seat . . .
A mate got a speeding ticket 120 in a 100 zone in a Series 2 land rover.
No-one knows how, and if he'd have been able to convince the magistrate to have a drive of it I reckon he'd have got off :lol: .
We nicknamed him 'Rocket" after that.
Of course this will happen. Its the intermediary step before self-driving vehicles are eventually introduced as standard. The same technology in part is being used here.
Will it bother me? Perhaps not as much as it will bother the motor industry with plummeting new car sales, or the police with their reduced revenue stream. We certainly won`t see a reduction in our insurance premiums, insurance companies will find a way of offsetting any potential loss due to this - and will be allowed to get away with it.
It will however be great to see `Dickhead` in his new sports car, stuck behind Grandad in his 40yr old Fiat 127 on the motorway - and not be able to anything whatsoever about it :rofl2:!
As for bikes? Well, i`m still trying to work out how lethal it`ll be when the limiter kicks-in as i`m cranked over half-way around a 70mph bend...... :confused1:
I've not heard of this but now I have decided athat I am retired I doubt that I will ever be in the market for a brand new vehicle again unless an unexpected inheritance or lottery win comes along.
A far a the police's revenue stream goes I doubt if it will make any difference, personally I don't think they are even trying to control speed sometimes. I regularly do a 400 mile trip to my holiday home* in Devon along the M5. The cruise control in the car is usually set to 75mph thereby pinching 5mph over the speed limit but I will find myself passed by somewhere between 5 and 10 times as many cars as I overtake - almost everyone speeds and I see no evidence of anyone getting nicked.
Cars are much safer than they were 60 years ago when the 70mph motorway limit was set, it needs to be raised to 80mph, but enforced.
*It's not as grand as that sounds
On balance I think you`re right Rynglieder, the police don`t seem capable of controlling anything these days. A total waste of our money. :furious:
I'd be quite happy if NSL went back to meaning No Speed Limit as it still should do. If someone's speed isn't enough to make a dangerous driving conviction stick then there is obviously no reason for them not to do it.
They are big on enforcing speeding here because it's a good earner... umm, I mean road safety measure.
Not so big on worrying about red light bloody runners though I see at least 3 or 4 every commute. :furious: