Exactly - stick to the speed limit and the car won’t beep. Some cars have this as an option already (my 2019 Kia Niro hybrid has) and I set the limit, it’s a bit of a faff and I don’t often use it as I stick to speed limits anyway. It wouldn’t be a great leap to connect this to the car’s GPS/Mapping system.
Of course you’ll have those that think speed limits are for other people/petrol heads complaining about their ‘rights’ and all that guff.
The bill sets the limit at 10 mp/h (16 km/h) over the limit before warning drivers. If they’re doing this, I’d rather it was something like 2 km/h + 15% over the limit, but that part is pretty reasonable. There’s no reason why anyone needs to be doing more than 16 km/h over the speed limit outside of emergencies.
16 km/h over the limit in a school zone is way too fast, though, but using my suggestion above as an arbitrary alternative, going up to 30 + 3 + 4.5 = 37.5 km/h in a 30-limit school zone wouldn’t beep at you. That seems reasonable. Fatality numbers are a lot higher at even 40, so letting drivers get to 46 without an additional warning is almost useless.
I really hope this doesn’t apply to freeways
I really hope it does
Exactly - stick to the speed limit and the car won’t beep. Some cars have this as an option already (my 2019 Kia Niro hybrid has) and I set the limit, it’s a bit of a faff and I don’t often use it as I stick to speed limits anyway. It wouldn’t be a great leap to connect this to the car’s GPS/Mapping system.
Of course you’ll have those that think speed limits are for other people/petrol heads complaining about their ‘rights’ and all that guff.
Yeah like… how fast do you have to drive before the beeps? I always heard 5-10 over is standard
Article says 10mph over the limit
Atlantians will be devastated.
The bill sets the limit at 10 mp/h (16 km/h) over the limit before warning drivers. If they’re doing this, I’d rather it was something like 2 km/h + 15% over the limit, but that part is pretty reasonable. There’s no reason why anyone needs to be doing more than 16 km/h over the speed limit outside of emergencies.
16 km/h over the limit in a school zone is way too fast, though, but using my suggestion above as an arbitrary alternative, going up to 30 + 3 + 4.5 = 37.5 km/h in a 30-limit school zone wouldn’t beep at you. That seems reasonable. Fatality numbers are a lot higher at even 40, so letting drivers get to 46 without an additional warning is almost useless.