New proposed EU speeding law?

Moto2

motorguy wrote: »

Because if you were to pull out to pass a car that is doing say, 555 mph, then whilst it may be perfectly viable to blip past 70mph as part of that maneuvre you'll hit a limiter which will leave you (a) in the wrong lane longer than you need to be and (b) potentially in the path of an oncoming vehicle.

How do other speed limited vehicles cope?

You've have to be pretty stupid, in any vehicle to try and overtake something on a single carriageway road that was already travelling at close to your top speed.

Moto2

Strider590 wrote: »

This'll cause more accidents that is saves........

We have a country of idiots, people who accelerate when being overtaken, it's going to end up in 2 cars going over a blind hill side by side playing chicken.

But that can and already does happen
One of them has to back off, at least with limiters they'd be going slower when eventually Darwin's law intervenes

flyingscotno1

According to this link it is a total myth.

forgotmyname

The photo in the link in the 1st post says it all really.

1 sign says stay in lane yet the markings above the left hand lane is telling you to move to the right.

So which is it to be? Stay in lane or move over?

Fit smaller wheels for the calibration, Then swap to larger ones when you get home, Sorted.. The outer lane is yours. If you can overtake someone doing 70mph overtaking someone else doing 70mph that is.

westwood68

This isn't really news.

It's some minor group in the EU trying to justify their existence and the "Daily Mail" style press jumping on it in order to get a lot of people angry for no reason.

Won't happen. Just like the 100bhp limit and "no aftermarket tampering/only original parts" legislation they have trying to bring in on Motorbikes.

Gloomendoom

flyingscotno1 wrote: »

According to this link it is a total myth.

Twitter?

The Transport Secretary seems to have been taken in.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin will fight the move after he was asked for his views ahead of formal proposals by the European Commission (EC) this autumn.

flyingscotno1

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Twitter?

The Transport Secretary seems to have been taken in.

Yes the Twitter comments of the vice-president of the EC, Siim Kallas, who is responsible for mobility and transport. He states it is totally false.

iolanthe07

caridgeway

Love it! Bloomer of the week?

Gloomendoom

flyingscotno1 wrote: »

Yes the Twitter comments of the vice-president of the EC, Siim Kallas, who is responsible for mobility and transport. He states it is totally false.

It will be interesting to see the recommendations resulting from the various consultations when they are published in the autumn.

The Commission has supported past research into ISA. There is a current stakeholder consultation and study focusing on speed limiting technology already fitted to HGVs and buses. One aspect of that is whether ISA could in the long-term be an alternative. And a second consultation on in-vehicle safety systems in general. Taking account of the consultation results, the Commission will publish in the autumn a document by its technical experts which will no doubt refer to ISA among many other things.

Source

jase1

The EU have stated that this is rubbish -- I will try to find the link.

Still, I'd be very much in favour of a box that stopped all the "safe driver" morons blundering through village schools at 40-45 when the posted limit is 30.

Preferably wired to the mains.