DRM
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I take you not been on a motorway lately, tailgating is the norm, not the exception these days
Driverless vehicles - Will they change cycling in any ways?
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I take you not been on a motorway lately, tailgating is the norm, not the exception these days
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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Cars have had them for donkeys years. No-one ever uses them, and using them is not mandated. Just "having" them.
Ming the Merciless
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It’s going to become mandatory and about time.
presta
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The problem is that people are motivated by what feels safer, not what is safer. Data like that will be secondary to one well-publicised story about an autopilot steering people into a brick wall.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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Can you link to the text of the law, please? I suspect there will be plenty of loopholes.
Alex321
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Not the type which are going to be a legal requirement on all cars sold from next month in the UK or EU.
The ones most cars have had for years are the type where the driver chooses the limit to set. The type which will be mandatory are the type which set the limit automatically to the speed limit, detected either by road signs or by use of GPS and a database, or a combination of the two.
It is not going to become mandatory to use them, although they will always be "on" by default. You will be able to override by pressing firmly on the accelerator, but they will be back on the next time you start the car ( I think in most cases they will also turn back on as soon as your speed falls below what they think the current limit is).
But won't be too long after that when someone comes up with a way of overriding the speed limters.
Just sayin'.
But won't be too long after that when someone comes up with a way of overriding the speed limters.
Just sayin'.
I've a feeling those people will be pretty easy to spot though...
But then it's a case of the badly overstretched authorities actually catching them and then having to prove that the limiter has been tampered with.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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But won't be too long after that when someone comes up with a way of overriding the speed limters.
Just sayin'.
Always criminals about
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
But won't be too long after that when someone comes up with a way of overriding the speed limters.
Just sayin'.
It's dead easy, you press the accelerator hard to disable it, just as you would with a fitted speed limiter that's set manually on current cars
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
I would like to see so called safe autonomous vehicle tech in manually driven cars first. Hsve it override the driver if they are about to do something stupid. Prove it prevents close passes, overtaking into a restriction etc etc. Prove its really as safe as their statements claim.
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Alex321
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But won't be too long after that when someone comes up with a way of overriding the speed limters.
Just sayin'.
All you need to do is press hard on the accelerator. That is built in by design, nobody needs to "come up with a way".
