New cars to be fitted with automatic speed limiters across Europe from this week – can they be turned off?

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/new-cars-fitted-automatic-speed-limiters-this-week/

by tylerthe-theatre

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  3. Buy a model that doesn’t have GPS built in and or cover up the camera, usually situated where the rear view mirror attaches to the windscreen glass.

  4. Love it when my car thinks its 30kmh on the Autobahn.

  5. The question is not whether they can be turned off, but rather how long it will be until someone figures out how to do it. My money is on a few months at most.

  6. > The technology allows the car to automatically restrict its speed based on GPS location, speed-sign recognition and cameras within the vehicle.
    > …
    > It does so by reducing the engine power until the relevant speed limit is met.

    *Allows* is the operative word here.

    ISA is mandatory, but systems to automatically reduce the speed are not.

    Manufacturers can theoretically implement such systems, but given how unreliable the technology (database coverage and sign recognition) currently is (not to mention how unpopular this would be) I doubt few will do that.

    – Which? https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/new-car-speed-limiter-laws-takes-effect-next-month-what-you-need-to-know-aGhzM8o8XXcf

  7. So another deceiving law to implement more mass surivellance by forcing manufacturer put a GPS device in every car…

    EU is more and more disgusting with each passing day.

  8. Have the politicians that vote for these stuff seen the car prices the last years?

  9. EU and it’s supporters “We are the forefront of liberal democracy”.

    Also EU : We are going to fit the cars you buy with your money to limit you from going above the speed limit using your car’s technology.

  10. Shit clickbaity source. And yes, they can be turned off.

  11. The fact that they can be turned off makes them irrelevant. A lot of people will just automatically turn them off as part of their car starting routine. In countries where people regularly drive well over the speed limit, this measure could have reduced deaths, but as it is, it’ll just be a minor inconvenience at the start of each journey. It has to be said though that countries need to update their speed signs. I’ve seen lots of examples of 130 going to 50 to 130 in the space of a few meters because they’ve never removed old works speed signs.

  12. So I detest this policy and want it repealed. Who do I vote for?

  13. I have this on my ’17, but have to manually set it. I set it to just below the “losing license for speeding” limit.

    Oh, and I haven’t seen a sign the car hasn’t read correctly yet.

  15. This is fake news. ISA has to be installed in new cars, but it will NOT slow down your car. It can not use the brakes or reduce the engine power. It will just warn the driver with an acustic signal that they are surpassing the speed and there can be systems installed which push up or rattle the gas pedal. Think of it like the lane assistent which rattles or slightly pushes the steering wheel when you cross a lane marking without using your turn signal. You can deactivate ISA just like the lane assist by using the cars computer.

    Is it annoying? Yes. Will it be safer for bad drivers? Maybe yes.

    What’s most annoying though is that this UK media publishes fake news about the EU. Is that one of those media outlets that’s financed by the far right brexiteers?

  19. > Even though the rule to install the technology does not apply in the UK, many of the cars will have been made in Europe and so will feature the Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) anyway.

    So no Brexit benefit after all.

  20. So what happens if I take my car to a track day. Stuffy raw pastry colored eurocrats have never heard of that I guess.

  21. Well, let’s take a look on how exhaust emission control works. Catalytic converters are easily cut off and lambda-sensors got tricked. However, most of the motorists just don’t bother themself to do any changes in their cars. But if you’d really want to do it, there are tons of options available.

  22. I love it when my car independently decides to brake-check the car behind me.

  23. “Yes, just sign here to say that you have deliberately bypassed your car’s ability to adhere to the LEGAL MAXIMUM speed limit, and we’ll pass that information on to your insurers.”

    If it’s not in place already, it’s not far off.

    When I learned to drive (in my 30’s), I had to explain to relatives what I had realised very quickly: Speed enforcement is literally never going to get “more lax”, no matter how much you might want that. So it’s absolutely pointless (and actual counter-productive) to train yourself into a habit of speeding.

    In another 20 years, when some of you guys are in your 60’s you’re all going to get fined to oblivion by the tech of the day because you just aren’t capable or in the habit of staying under the MAXIMUM LEGAL SPEED LIMIT.

    And that’s precisely why cars are being mandated to have these devices.

  25. Agitators or even Russia can use gps signal spoofing to make some roads very dangerous with this system in place…

  27. Answer: yes. But you need to do it each time you start the car.

  28. What’s the point if people can just turn it off?

  29. Article is fear mongering.

    The law mandates audible warnings while speeding- like in UAE….. not speed limiters.

  30. We don’t worry in Romania. We all have “a boy” that can solve this problem

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