Mandatory Speed Limiters coming in 7th July!!

[Simon Bateman]

On 19/07/2024 at 07:15, Dan E said:

Did it work?

Managed to get the M2 out today and your tip does work, so all good thanks 👍

[Dan E]

Perfect 👌

[LotuStuart]

Obviously I'm leaping to conclusions here, but see this ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c29d2lenkp1o

I wonder if speed limiters preventing racing would have saved these six lives?

 

[JimmytheTurbo]

On 05/06/2024 at 12:39, Kimbers said:

 sign recognition cameras to determine the speed limit of the road a vehicle is travelling on.

I have this on my work van but when I drive along A140 at Stratton Strawless its a 50 but local residents have put up fake signs saying 40mph "we want 40 now".

My van sees these and slows to 40. Can you go round and nick them all please so I can be on my way at 50!

[Simon Bateman]

Speed can be an issue at both ends of the scale. 

I often find myself on the same single carriageway A road near to where I live and despite being a clear open road with a 60mph speed limit, I regularly experience people driving at nearer to 40mph. It's a longish stretch of road, so to a certain extent this forces drivers to attempt overtakes, when in reality they wouldn't feel the need to do this if other road users drove closer to the speed limit.

[C8RKH]

On 28/06/2024 at 11:47, Mark Blanchard said:

Doesn't the ASL system only apply to cars made in Europe?  Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and American car's sold here won't be effected?

I can't imagine the new V8 Mustang having this fitted.

It's not about regulations were it is made, it is about where the car is to be sold and used. So if a Mustang is made in 'Murica to be sold in the EU then it needs to comply.

[Mark Blanchard]

That makes sense.  So Mustangs delivered to our shores will be free of the device.

[C8RKH]

Only if we have decided NOT to follow the EU directives.  We have been re cars since Brexit.

Edited July 27 by Bravo73

[mg4lotus]

Does it only apply to models introduced since 2022? Wasn't this the reason the Emira was introduced before the 2022 deadline?

Also, if you were to buy a car in America and then import it yourself, would that get around the ISA scourge?

[Kimbers]

On 26/07/2024 at 15:22, C8RKH said:

Only if we have decided NOT to follow the EU directives.  We have been re cars since Brexit.

We only follow EU directives when it either gives the Govt more money, more scope to influence our lives or more restrictions to our freedoms.

We are not to be trusted with knowing our own minds, what we want to do, when we want to do it.

Never been a conspiracy theorist but genuinely more and more concerned the way successive govts want to control us, our time and our money.

 

[C8RKH]

This Labour Government really wants to control us. The people who really wanted Labour in will likely be the first, and loudest, to squeal.