• Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    These rules are convoluted and near impossible to apply. Specific braking speeds for some objects compared to others? That requires reliable computer vision, which hasn’t been demonstrated anywhere yet.

    And those speeds? 92mph is 148kph! Why the fuck are cars even permitted to be capable of that when no road in the country allows it? And why would you want to introduce unpredictable braking scenarios at such speeds?

    What is feasible is a speed limiter based on the posted limit, but that’d be too practical.

    • nogooduser@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      What is feasible is a speed limiter based on the posted limit, but that’d be too practical.

      I have recently got a car that tells me the currently posted limit and it is frequently wrong. It misses sign posts and sometimes thinks that a signpost for a side road applies to you.

      It also has a speed limiter and a button to set the limit to the detected speed which I use a lot but I wouldn’t want it to do it itself.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Okay but we can still run a max speed governor. Put it at 78, with that annoying beeping sound if you creep above 75.

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Thing is like none of our roads are properly tested for the posted speed limits. Interstates can often go up to a 75 limit and regular traffic will go at 85 (because cops dont care til more than 10 over and that difference adds up on long trips) with some people going 90+.

    • dankm@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      The highest speed limit in the USA is 137kph or 85mph. 148 is not a lot higher, and people tend to be stupid.