EU speed limiters

Car_54

Money_Grabber13579 said:

Hoenir said:

Alanp said:

Funny isn’t it, if everyone obayed the speed limits and the rules of the road, we wouldn’t need these systems..

The number of fatal accidents is increasing. 

Possibly because less people are obeying the rules of the road. For a start, I certainly see a lot more drivers running red lights than ever before (although that is probably a cause of a very small number of fatal collisions) and the use of phones and other devices by drivers is definitely increasing again.

Fewer!     

35har1old

elsien said:

oldernonethewiser said:

All new cars.  Just in case people were thinking they had to rush out and get such things fitted to their current car. 

Although people should be aware by now that we’re not in the EU anyway. 

The AA and RAC both say they will likely be fitted to all new models as the cost of developing a system soley for UK models is not cost effective 

TooManyPoints

Can any or all of this junk be disabled?

Money_Grabber13579

Car_54 said:

Money_Grabber13579 said:

Hoenir said:

Alanp said:

Funny isn’t it, if everyone obayed the speed limits and the rules of the road, we wouldn’t need these systems..

The number of fatal accidents is increasing. 

Possibly because less people are obeying the rules of the road. For a start, I certainly see a lot more drivers running red lights than ever before (although that is probably a cause of a very small number of fatal collisions) and the use of phones and other devices by drivers is definitely increasing again.

Fewer!     

Oops. Sorry! 😁

Alanp

My car has auto braking, it operated when a learner driver decided to stop on the slip road of a dual carriageway just as my wife was accelerating up to speed, fortunately the driver behind was paying attention and managed to stop in time before he hit us though I doubt he had any modern safety system fitted to his car as it was an older model 

Herzlos

TooManyPoints said:

Can any or all of this junk be disabled?

You can disable it but it'll re-enable any time you restart the car.

Herzlos

elsien said:

oldernonethewiser said:

All new cars.  Just in case people were thinking they had to rush out and get such things fitted to their current car. 

Although people should be aware by now that we’re not in the EU anyway. 

This will be a feature on any EU market car, and I think we agreed to follow the EU rules anyway so even the few cars still made in the UK will have these features.

TooManyPoints

You can disable it but it'll re-enable any time you restart the car

So you'll have to disable them every time you start up?

This will be a feature on any EU market car, and I think we agreed to follow the EU rules anyway so even the few cars still made in the UK will have these features.

I think the issue is that whether the UK follows the rules or not, manufacturers (both in the UK and in Europe) are not going to make two different specs of cars, one for sale in the UK and one for sale in the EU. That's OK so long as drivers who don't fancy the idea of (say) their brakes being applied harshly without their consent can disable the feature. 

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Meanwhile Suzuki have pulled out of selling cars in the EU, probably one hoop too many when their main market is Asia Pacific.

The ships en route to the UK are the last ones.

elsien

I appreciate that. The response was more around people thinking they had to retrofit older cars,