UK opts out of (mandatory) intelligent speed assist?
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DickP said:
Hi,
Just seen some comments about the UK opting out of the EU mandatory requirement for intelligent speed limiters in new cars. Struggling to find any sources apart from one or two news sites. Is this true?
Unless the UK makes it illegal to have it then I suspect cars will have it anyway.Just seen some comments about the UK opting out of the EU mandatory requirement for intelligent speed limiters in new cars. Struggling to find any sources apart from one or two news sites. Is this true?
Manufacturers will engineer one system and just fit it to everything, rather than create a unique UK spec.
Jader1973 said:
DickP said:
Hi,
Just seen some comments about the UK opting out of the EU mandatory requirement for intelligent speed limiters in new cars. Struggling to find any sources apart from one or two news sites. Is this true?
Unless the UK makes it illegal to have it then I suspect cars will have it anyway.Just seen some comments about the UK opting out of the EU mandatory requirement for intelligent speed limiters in new cars. Struggling to find any sources apart from one or two news sites. Is this true?
Manufacturers will engineer one system and just fit it to everything, rather than create a unique UK spec.
Jader1973 said:
DickP said:
Hi,
Just seen some comments about the UK opting out of the EU mandatory requirement for intelligent speed limiters in new cars. Struggling to find any sources apart from one or two news sites. Is this true?
Unless the UK makes it illegal to have it then I suspect cars will have it anyway.Just seen some comments about the UK opting out of the EU mandatory requirement for intelligent speed limiters in new cars. Struggling to find any sources apart from one or two news sites. Is this true?
Manufacturers will engineer one system and just fit it to everything, rather than create a unique UK spec.
I'd imagine if it isn't legislation, they won't impose it on us. Cars are engineered for the whole world these days, not just Europe.
Geffg said:
Imagine how much money government / police / councils would lose if every car stuck to the speed limits
2.4 million speeding tickets a year @ £100 a go is £240 million a year.Quite a few quid.
To say nothing of the extra time it would take to get anywhere.
National average wage is about £20 an hour. Do an average week's
driving in an hour's less time, and you are £20 per week up.
It really is all about the revenue. Putting speed cameras on the safest
roads, the motorways, is proof of that.
Cars like the combustion powered 718 Boxster and Cayman are being discontinued in the EU from July 2024 because of these laws (including cyber security laws) that Porsche deem aren't worth meeting with models lines at the end of their life. As the UK haven't adopted these laws the combustion powered 718 models will still be available in the UK after July 2024
ITP said:
This will be the case. Lots of new cars already have it before the July 2024 deadline. You only have to watch many YouTube car reviewers who have to turn it all off as its default on every time car is started. This is a pain having to turn it off all the time but of course the real risk is that all it will take is an ‘over the air’ update to remove the option to turn it all off. Your car then becomes so frustrating it is almost undriveable and you’ll just want to sell it.
Jeremy Clarkson reviewed the new Mazda 3 saloon the week before last in the Sunday Times and one of the many things he mentioned was that it had a button by his knee that turned off all the new compulsory nannying nonsense.If Mazda can do it, I'm sure other manufacturers can.
dcb said:
Geffg said:
Imagine how much money government / police / councils would lose if every car stuck to the speed limits
2.4 million speeding tickets a year @ £100 a go is £240 million a year.Quite a few quid.
To say nothing of the extra time it would take to get anywhere.
National average wage is about £20 an hour. Do an average week's
driving in an hour's less time, and you are £20 per week up.
It really is all about the revenue. Putting speed cameras on the safest
roads, the motorways, is proof of that.
That percentage reduces even further when the administration overhead costs are taken into account.
Deranged Rover said:
Jeremy Clarkson reviewed the new Mazda 3 saloon the week before last in the Sunday Times and one of the many things he mentioned was that it had a button by his knee that turned off all the new compulsory nannying nonsense.
If Mazda can do it, I'm sure other manufacturers can.
I believe the legislation also requires a minimum number of steps to switch off the systems, so in future a simple button press won't be allowed.If Mazda can do it, I'm sure other manufacturers can.
Debaser said:
Deranged Rover said:
Jeremy Clarkson reviewed the new Mazda 3 saloon the week before last in the Sunday Times and one of the many things he mentioned was that it had a button by his knee that turned off all the new compulsory nannying nonsense.
If Mazda can do it, I'm sure other manufacturers can.
I believe the legislation also requires a minimum number of steps to switch off the systems, so in future a simple button press won't be allowed.If Mazda can do it, I'm sure other manufacturers can.
Beeps and bongs from a Nanny on drugs can fk off.
I simply wouldn’t buy a car that distracts like that with no simple means of turning it off.
Having driven cars that use sign recognition and flash up what they think is the limit on the dash it doesn’t work anyway. Combine it with satnav and a very up to date database and it might work properly, but the current ‘read a random sign and go with that as the limit’ is not fit for purpose.
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