Speed limiters to be fitted on all new cars by 2022

[DP1400]

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 !
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......

[Rynglieder]

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

[DP1400]

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.

[Hooli]

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.

[VladTepes]

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.