Posted on 03/24/2015 12:52:24 PM PDT by C19fan
Much as we'd like to emulate our NASCAR heroes, breaking the speed limit often comes at a price. Ford is hoping to prevent accidents and speeding tickets by introducing cars that can see what the speed limit is and preventing heavy-footed motorists from driving any faster. Ford's Intelligent Speed Limiter tech will first appear on the new Ford S-Max that's launching in Europe that could just change the way that we drive.
(Excerpt) Read more at engadget.com ...
The speed camera companies like ATS are going to be pissed. What if they collude together with Ford to make the cars speed past their cameras to generate massive revenue? And the judges won’t listen to your arguments because you didnt bring an expert witness to court to explain how the systems work and won’t let you speed?
Don’t buy Ford or any other company that helps the Feds to apply the screws for that matter...
The local mall has 5mph signs on its loop road — nobody goes less than 35mph.
If these pick up signals (wifi?) from the traffic sign posts, could those same signposts be driven by the police to slow the speed limit to 5 miles per hour in the incidence of a chase?
How?
Most truck fleets have/use this already. It’s how we help manage our fuel costs. But if you keep buying cars with carburetors, you should be OK.
My car often thinks it’s going 120mph when I’m on snow or ice.
i hope nobody buys those
Absolutely no ****ing way....
“I work for IBM and I want to build a smarter planet”
IBM’s Watson will be used under the banner of building a smarter planet, only to intrude on everything we do. First it starts out as smart water and electric meters and then onto smart parking meters that “zero out” when you pull away, then it quickly becomes this: Roads that know and enforce their speed limit. Then it moves to variable speed limits on the same road, all in the name of safety, because if it saves one life, doncha know....
Then it’s onto monitored toilet flushes and hairdryer usage, then it achieves full awareness when the electricity flowing into your house is reduced/throttled without your knowledge.
(There are already smart water heaters that won’t heat water during the middle of the day)
This Ford thing is just another brick in the wall.
Did you read the article?
I have a speed limit indicator on a BMW motorcycle. It is often wrong. It usually reports slower speeds.
Cars I will never buy include....
I believe most of CA, especially in cities.
Pretty fun to do 20 over with everyone else alongside the cop.
No way-a thinking person does not drive a vehicle which makes decisions-machines do not reason-they are just designed to react one way to a situation. It is a disaster ready to happen every time a driver needs to accelerate, whether to pass a vehicle being driven unsafely or to change lanes-but it will be a shower of gold for attorneys...
They may start out voluntary but could become mandatory.
It doesn’t bappen in SOCAL. If there is a cop on the freeway, even if they are going the other way, drivers lay on the brakes.
a Democrat has to have approved this joke. Someone at ford is stuck on stupid.
Nobody ever pays attention to these reduced speed signs. Therefore, this will be the only car slowing down in the reduced speed zone.
If, as the article states, the car slows down by cutting fuel and not by applying the brakes, it will decelerate without brake lights. The yuppie texting in the BMW behind you will not expect the deceleration and rear-end you.
I guess that Airbus has found a buyer for their stupid fly by wire autopilots
there is a reason w.buffet dumped IBM.
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