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having speed limiters would be a good idea
the limit should be ~10 over though
sometimes you need some leeway for safety
we should return to there being a man in front of the car waving a flag that the driver has to follow
reject modernity return to tradition
most of everyone would just do 10 over, rendering the whole idea pretty moot
the idea is pretty moot to begin with tbh
50cc mopeds here have restrictors on them, and pretty much every teenager immediately gets it removed
sometimes because being stuck to exactly the speed limit is pretty dangerous
if people behind you are doing 35 until they have you in front of them, you get to enjoy having cars uncomfortably close behind you while they get increasingly annoyed until they can overtake
I don't think approaching this problem by way of ceding to roadraging psychopaths is the correct way to go on about this. Like obviously the limiters aren't the instant fix-everything button, I don't even think you could realistically retrofit most cars, but why this isn't standard on new cars with software that bricks itself if you fuck with it I don't get.
i think a simple ~10 over limiter would be fine, the times you need the extra speed might be rare, but they do happen and it's best to have people safe tbh
making sure the speed limit is actually enforced fixes the "everyone will just max it out" thing
i would never trust a car manufacturer's software that's designed to brick itself to not fuck up when someone's doing 60 on a motorway tbh
yeah but like what if limiters were a thing?
I guarantee you the safety win from everybody being 10mph slower is gonna be order of magnitudes bigger than whatever hypothetical you could use 10mph more, statistically
You're gonna run out of options soon enough here, modern cars already have things of this nature in them because they don't work without a load of software helping you out and many won't start if they think something is wrong, roll-over prevention on larger vehicles for example. Sometimes even down to stuff like tyre pressure sensors.
It's not like I don't see your point here in some way, but that's not a problem specific to speed limiters and if you draw the line there you'd have to reinvent the whole approach to it anyways. God knows I'm not opposed to it.