New proposed EU speeding law?

zappahey

jase1 wrote: »

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

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This one? http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/reports-of-brussels-big-brother-bid-to-impose-speed-controls-are-inaccurate-beyond-the-limit-2/

The other clue was that every story linked back to The Telegraph as the source and nothing accurate about the EU comes from there.

gilbert_and_sullivan

peter_the_piper wrote: »

http://recombu.com/cars/articles/news/eu-to-impose-electronic-70mph-speed-limit-on-all-new-cars
I'm sure you will all agree to this won't you..

All those who voted for traitors who (for their twenty pieces of silver) allowed foreign apparatchiks to rule our land from Brussels without a shot being fired already have agreed.

martinthebandit

Gloomendoom wrote: »

It would be perfectly possible to have a fixed 70 mph limiter on all cars.

Except that its not possible

jase1

zappahey wrote: »

This one? http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/reports-of-brussels-big-brother-bid-to-impose-speed-controls-are-inaccurate-beyond-the-limit-2/

The other clue was that every story linked back to The Telegraph as the source and nothing accurate about the EU comes from there.

Yup -- that's the one, thanks.

oldhand

Typical,you take delivery of a new runaround and they try to ruin your fun...............

goonarmy

Clearly not true. Why would the eu limit our green a pleasant land and not others? Or try to enforce a uniform limit on countries that dont have uniform limits or in some cases no limits. I can hear screaming reels....

Ultrasonic

martinthebandit wrote: »

Except that its not possible

Why not? Having 90 kph limiters on HGVs works, doesn't it?

Not that I want a limiter on my car, or would support their introduction.

goonarmy

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Why not? Having 90 kph limiters on HGVs works, doesn't it?

Not that I want a limiter on my car, or would support their introduction.

Because you would need as many different types of limiter as there are different types of engine. And how to limit a simple old engine with no electrics is hard to imagine.

cardinalbiggles

I once had a Renault Megane hire car, it was completely awful, but it did have a governor on it which was actually a really nice feature. Set it to 30 in the town and you never had to worry about going to fast.

Only redeeming feature about the car tbh.

alastairq

And how to limit a simple old engine with no electrics is hard to imagine.

Many ways to do that....as many racing formulae use?

Ie, restrictions on carburettor size, inlet manifold diameter, amount of timing advance, final drive gear ratios [ for example, I have a 'special', which used a 1300cc engine....but with gearing of 5.5:1, it would barely do 65 mph at around 5000 revs]............or..simply, a self-imposed limiter attached to the driver's right foot?


One of the by-products of speed governance for general use, as I see it, would be the removal of a need for large & powerful engines......?

For years, the old rear-engined Skodas made use of appropriate gear ratios to utilise their engines' modest power outputs to the full [like racing car builders try to do?]...which resulted in fairly low top speeds,, but a lot of fun with what was left.


So, small [more efficient?] engines with appropriate gearing might be the way things might have gone?