EU plans to fit all cars with speed limiters

the telegraph ^ | Sept 1, 2013 | Claire Carter

[driftdiver]

Under the proposals new cars would be fitted with cameras that could read road speed limit signs and automatically apply the brakes when this is exceeded.

Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, is said to be opposed to the plans, which could also mean existing cars are sent to garages to be fitted with the speed limiters, preventing them from going over 70mph.

The new measures have been announced by the European Commission’s Mobility and Transport Department as a measure to reduce the 30,000 people who die on the roads in Europe every year.

[driftdiver]

Its for the Chilldrun of course

[PAR35]

And the Krauts are going to go along with this?

[Paladin2]

It’ll make passing combines and slow grain trucks more dangerous.

[Blood of Tyrants]

A police state is a safe state. /sarc

[razorback-bert]

I had a BMW limited to 95, didn’t care for it.

[ThunderSleeps]

And kids would never paint over signs with higher or lower speeds...

[driftdiver]

Its coming to the US if we don’t get rid of these nanny staters.

[montanajoe]

Ford has been doing it since at least 2001..every time hit 93mph in my 2001 truck with 470,000 miles on it conks out..which is more dangerous in my opinion..

[driftdiver]

well there ya go,

[Proud2BeRight]

Put an image of a 200 MPH sign on the camera lens.

[BenLurkin]

The Lear Jet Leftists will find a way to exempted as they speed about in their Teslas.

[faithhopecharity]

how will all the Maserati, Lambroghini, Jaguar, Corvette, etc etc etc etc.......drivers like this?

[usconservative]

I dunno, the fact you have 470,000 miles on a Ford and it hasn't died on the side of the road yet is pretty damn' impressive by itself!

I have a 2003 GMC Envoy Denali that disengaged the transmission over 105mph. "Disengaged" means the transmission literally floated until the vehicle slowed down to 105 before it'd accelerate again.

Hooked up my laptop to the computer, 10 minutes later throttle control and torque management turned off. Problem solved. It'll bury 120 now and has pedal left. Used to be a dog from a dead stop. Punch the gas pedal it literally sat there. Now it at least leaves a little rubber on the pavement. Obviously I don't give a damn about the MPG which weren't all that great to begin with at 15/21.

[ConorMacNessa]

70 mph? I usually hit that before I get out of the driveway!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[faithhopecharity]

when the remote government automatically applies the brakes in your vehicle,

you are not riding in a safe conveyance

the remote government cannot see or respond to highway or traffic hazards where you are driving

will they pay if their remote controls on your car cause a big accident?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks driftdiver.

Britain fights EU’s ‘Big Brother’ bid to fit every car with speed limiter
Mail on Sunday (UK) | 03:43 EST, 1 September 2013 | Glen Owen
Posted on 09/01/2013 6:36:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3061413/posts

[Vince Ferrer]

Makes it easier to catch terrorists. Yeah, that’s it.

[montanajoe]

I like my Ford’s..

Yeah its in the chip, I should have fixed it by now but I got used keeping ‘er down to 90.. unless some dude in a GMC tries to pass..

[howlinhound]

It will likely take one day for some brainiac to come up with a hack to bypass the limiter and post the how-to instructions on the internet.

[usconservative]

unless some dude in a GMC tries to pass..

LOL!! The difference between Ford and GMC on this one is that Ford embeds it on the chip. If you want to "fix" the problem, you have to find an aftermarket chip and replace it. Not necessarily a hard job to do, unless Ford put it in the transmission rather than an onboard computer.

GMC (at least for 2002, 2003, 2004 and I think 2005) didn't put torque management or throttle control on the chip - they put it in software.

I found a guy down in southern Indiana who sold a re-programming kit for the GMC's, claiming he could either program the computer to get better gas mileage, or more power out of the engine. It didn't take much to figure out that he was simply changing a couple of bytes in the code to enable/disable certain features to increase power. His "claim to fame" was that he "cleaned up" GMC's bad code in his program which in turn delivered better fuel efficiency in the vehicle.

How much? He claimed he could boost the highway MPG on a 4200 I-6 GMC from 21 to 25mpg and boost the horsepower to boot.

Never bought his kit, but figured out by plugging in a laptop and bringing up an old version of Norton Editor to read the machine code in the computer that I could just as easily change the bits to turn off the torque management and throttle control. (Those changes are published on the net.) Did it myself, saved $250 for his "programming code" and haven't looked back. My gas mileage before the change was on average 16/22. Post change it's 15/22.

I'll give up the 1mpg for better drive-ability of the vehicle. I drive a whopping 8 miles a day anyway, so the miniscule decrease in mpg isn't going to kill me. (Driving this thing up to hunting camp is alot more fun too.)