GPS anti-speeding devices

[ufo_investigations]

Why wont the government mandate into law GPS anti-speeding devices for all vehicles?

Vehicles with such a device would not be able to speed. It would not allow the driver to exceed the speed limit.

ROAD SAFETY CAMERAS would not need to photograph cars and the speed camera office would not need to process speeding infringements.

Police could then concentrate on thefts, fraud, violence etc...

More criminals could be locked up as more effort is put into this.

Instead put CCTV on every major road and install a quadrillion gig HDD which could be accessed by police.

What do you think? Could this work?

[1966kelso]

no speeding = lost revenue

[acacia_pycnantha]

What Kelso said.

The govt depends upon us speeding as an essential part of its' revenue.

Allow cars on the road which can reach 200 km per hour and then fine us for using them.

If the govt really wanted to do something to make the roads safer then it would introduce a law which said that all newly manufacured cars must have a mobile phone blocker installed, so that peeps can't phone or text while driving.

Oh, but sales would plummet. Anyone for an anthrax ripple?

[amber-eyed-girl]

Tonight saw a green P plater in a brand new Jeep texting whilst driving at about 80km in a 60 zone, a girl...swerving all over the road.

Still had a red ribbon stuck to the back.

Any limiter device would need to recognise road limits (as in spot the signs) and adjust regularly.

There was a system devised a few years ago by some Uni students, which could "read" road signs and limit speed...haven't heard of it hitting the market (no surprises there) but it is a technological possibility.

[acacia_pycnantha]

All of these things are a technological possibility, but because commercial interests are involved, they remain a practical improbability.

[amber-eyed-girl]

It was also quite expensive to implement the initial project...and it didn't do so well at night at that stage.

[crystal**flake]

I think it could be dangerous having those in the car, the driver loses control then.

[acacia_pycnantha]

It's also dangerous to have drivers who exceed the speed limit or drivers who phone or text whilst driving.

Are these drivers in full control?

[amber-eyed-girl]

There are a few innovations in cars now, some old some new, where the driver's actions can be adjusted/overridden: the brakes, the headlights, the parking sensors, the collision sensors..."safety" drops in speed when the on-board computer believes there's a mechanical issue...now that's the one that terrifies me. Because that can be without warning.

[acacia_pycnantha]

Confess now, Crystal . . . you're a speeding  text-phone freak, aren't you? 😉