Posted on 03/30/2016 10:28:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The crowdsourced driving app, owned by Google, already offers up the best routes to your destination by gathering data from fellow users on accidents, traffic jams, road closures and other hazards. Now, at least in some countries, it will also let you know when you're pushing the speed limit.
If you're driving too fast, a visual warning will pop up on the app's screen showing your speed. The warning stays there until you slow down to below the speed limit. You can customize the app to warn you if you reach the speed limit or if you shoot past it by 5 percent, 10 percent or 15 percent. You can also turn off the alerts completely.
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Great. Now if we could only turn off the pop-up ads.
I don't see the point of this app. I don't look at my cell phone while driving, and I would not expect any safe drivers to do so either. The exception is at traffic lights, and the warning goes off when you stop.
Around where I live, if you followed the speed limits you’d be run off the road.....unless, of course, a cop car appears, in which case everyone is very law-abiding.
Stupid and redundant. Why would anyone need an app like that when they already have the instruments cluster right there on the panel in front of their faces?
Version 2.0 will automatically mail a ticket to your house.
No, Version 2.0 will administer an electric shock.
People mount their phones to the corner of their windshields or the venter of their dash not from eyesight so they can see the navigation directions without looking completely away from the road.
Sounds like it’s for idiots who are on the phone while driving.
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Back when the 55 mph speed limit was en vogue during the Carter years, I rented a U-Haul which had a mechanism in the accelerator that prevented the truck from going faster than 55 mph. I could see a return to cars that cannot exceed, say, 70 mph, especially as the EPA nazis continue their crusade.
Thanks. I didn’t know that. I always assume the thing standing there is a dedicated GPS unit.
Ug how socialistic. Top speed for my car is about one football field length per second. I got close once in ten years.
My thought exactly.
They should put it in terms that people will understand. It would probably be more effective if it warns you when you reached certain fine limits (accompanied by a little blue revolving light, of course)
Speed warning. If pulled by the Highway Patrol, you will expect to pay $75.00...
Speed warning. If pulled by the Highway Patrol, you will expect to pay $100.00...
Speed warning. If pulled by the Highway Patrol, you will expect to pay $150.00...
Many GPS devices already do this. I have a BMW motorcycle Garmin Navigator V that shows the current speed limit and the displayed speed limit turns red when I exceed it. I *think* it turns to black when I go under the limit...but I haven’t tested that yet.
Waze is awesome. Also lets you know of where the PoPo is hiding. Keeps you abreast of upcoming traffic jams, routes you around them if possible, etc. Very useful on long trips. Of course, best used by the copilot, or shotgun rider.
I could see a return to cars that cannot exceed, say, 70 mph, especially as the EPA nazis continue their crusade.
That would be a real bummer on Texas roads that have an 85mph speed limit.
Not sure why this is such a big deal.
My Garmin GPS already does this. The speed limit on most roads is shown at the bottom right of the screen, and it’s very accurate.
I can watch it change just as I pass the speed limit sign.
App, shmap! I’ve been driving for 40 years now and never run into a situation where I needed anything like it. Drivers Training in ‘75...Must have been superior to today’s training because I’ve always been able to find my own way and avoid trouble on my own.
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