Beeping when over the speed limit (misidentification of speed limit).

Wyndham

Okell said:

Frozen_up_north said:

Use the Waze phone app to display a map and speed limit on your car screen. Waze is free and they are quick to change their mapping when a speed limit is changed, you submit the details and they review it within a couple of weeks.

The camera in my car sometimes picks up the wrong speed limit, a 30 limit sign on a bend that looks like the 20 limit has changed... Waze isn't fooled. Likewise Waze will warn you about speed cameras plus user entered potholes, roadworks, and temporary speed cameras.

How does Waze fix the OP's problem?  (ie disabling the default beeping.  I suspect the OP isn't bothered about being informed of the current speed limit as I presume he has functioning eyes)

If it feeds data to the car about the actual speed limit rather than the speed limit that the car is assuming, then it would help. I need to do more investigation into the app, I'll let you know the results!

(And, just FYI, I'm female. Realise it's not obvious from the username, but if I'm not sure about gender I tend to use 'they' just in case....)

Wyndham

Okell said:

daveyjp said:

Search owners club sites and see if there is a hack for defaulting the system to off, or whether it can be done via the OBD port.

flaneurs_lobster said:

daveyjp said:

Search owners club sites and see if there is a hack for defaulting the system to off, or whether it can be done via the OBD port.

Do you think forgetting to re-enable will become a Mot fail, if the thing is now mandatory? 

And might insurers think that disabling what is presumably intended to be a saftey feature is a "modification" they need to be informed about?

I sort of see the point, but given that my old car didn't have this at all, then was I driving in an 'inferior' way with that car? Genuine question!

Wyndham

TooManyPoints said:

Use the Waze phone app to display a map and speed limit on your car screen.

Better still, look out of the window.  I understand the authorities place these large signs with numbers on them to indicate where a speed limit changes.

Yes. And having moved from a car with very little of this stuff to one which has lots, I'm certainly noticing the difference. And I'm sure that I will never, ever, rely on it, but will continue to do what I have always done. I think that is good driving practice, and part of my overall responsibility!

michael1234

So its become a legal requirement to fix cameras and tech to read roadsigns ? Meanwhile, getting an integrated dashcam seems like too much to ask of many manufacturers. 

Alanp

In my previous car, the speed was linked to the limiter, so , not only did it beep at you, it also slowed the car to the limit, it did pick up the odd side road with a 20mph limit and would slow it to this which could be quite alarming and potentially dangerous, my current car ( also a Toyota) doesn’t do this, you can set the speed limiter to read up to 3mph over but I think it will still beep at you, or maybe you have to reset this every time you drive, 

Nearlyold

My Tucson sometimes used to see the Roundels typically on the back of continental lorries as speed signs and helpfully inform me the max speed allowed was 230mph or similar.

Aretnap

Frozen_up_north said:

TooManyPoints said:

Use the Waze phone app to display a map and speed limit on your car screen.

Better still, look out of the window.  I understand the authorities place these large signs with numbers on them to indicate where a speed limit changes.

Unfortunately, councils are not required to place reminder signs in a 30 limit. 

They use great big lights on top of poles as reminder signs.

MattMattMattUK

michael1234 said:

So its become a legal requirement to fix cameras and tech to read roadsigns ? Meanwhile, getting an integrated dashcam seems like too much to ask of many manufacturers. 

The reason that a lot of cars do not have dashcams built in is some countries ban them outright and others put heavy restrictions on their use. Germany has lots of restrictions, but a full ban on continuous recording being the biggest, and also the home of many car companies is why it took so long for them to start building them in and they are still quite restrictive. Personally I would have made built in dashcams compulsory long before the emergency call system.

Mildly_Miffed

MattMattMattUK said:

Personally I would have made built in dashcams compulsory long before the emergency call system.

GM introduced OnStar in North America in 1996.
Mandatory eCall was first proposed in Europe in 1999, and adopted in 2013 for new type approvals from 2015.

MattMattMattUK

Mildly_Miffed said:

MattMattMattUK said:

Personally I would have made built in dashcams compulsory long before the emergency call system.

GM introduced OnStar in North America in 1996.
Mandatory eCall was first proposed in Europe in 1999, and adopted in 2013 for new type approvals from 2015.

Yep, and it would have made far more sense to mandate dashcams, considering that offer wider benefits, reduce costs for innocent parties and are far cheaper to implement.