Ford's new car will force you to obey the speed limit

engadget ^ | March 24, 2015 | Daniel Cooper

[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.

[Vendome]

Local LEO must be shaking their heads and wondering where the revenues will come from...

[Grams A]

Makes my old 2004 car look better every day!

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Slowing down by reducing gas flow is the equivalent of stepping off the gas.

If that causes a rear-ender, the fault is not with the car is in front.

[DiogenesLamp]

Ford's new car will force you to obey the speed limit

No it won't because I won't buy it or use it.

[McGruff]

I'm all for driving the speed limit. it's just no-one else seems to be. Especially soccer moms.

[thackney]

So the new teenager prank will be to put up paper MPH signs on the highway of 5 mph, bringing all the new cars to a crawl?

[mykroar]

Really Ford? You're going to waste the good rep you got by not suckling on the govt's teat with this idiocy?

[WayneS]

This is complete bullsh!t.

There are times when accelerating is the proper and safest response to a developing emergency situation. A vehicle that will not allow that is unsafe and therefore useless.

Plus, it is my business whether I want to exceed a given posted speed limit.

For the most part, the speed limits set on roads have nothing to do whit safety and everything to do with revenue generation.

[RayChuang88]

Before everyone denounces this whole idea, remember this about speed limits in Europe: they are not kidding that exceeding the speed limit is dangerous on European roads. Try driving a "normal" car exceeding the posted 60, 70, or 80 km/h limit on a continental European road and you're liable to get into trouble very quickly, unlike American roads, which tend to set the speed limit way lower against the potential limit for safe driving conditions.

[Mike Darancette]

You’ll be able spot the Fords on the road; they’ll be the cars everyone is passing.

[Slings and Arrows]

Technology that overrides the driver’s control of a vehicle’s speed? What could possibly go wrong?

[longtermmemmory]

what if you live in Montana where there is no speed limit?

will the cars be only valid in particular states?

[WayneS]

80 kph is only 50 mph. Where’s the danger?

[XRdsRev]

“(perhaps the European eunuchs or NYC effetes)”

Have you ever seen NYC’ers drive ? They get into Jersey or upstate NY and drive like they are on the autobahn.

They are so stifled by gridlock and slow speeds in the city that many of them drop the pedal and go nuts when they get onto suburban or rural roadways.

[rfreedom4u]

We won’t need this in Houston. You rarely ever get up to the speed limit with all the cars on the road here.

[McGruff]

Technology that overrides the driver’s control of a vehicle’s speed? What could possibly go wrong?

Hey planes have autopilot. Oh wait, nevermind. Bad timing for that example.

[WayneS]

I have not noticed that in Virginia. The New York plates are the most-represented among the slow-moving cars that clog the local highways where I live.

[katana]

Good luck accelerating to avoid being crushed between a semi tractor trailer and a half blind imbecile trying to merge into your passenger door.

[longtermmemmory]

ideas like this are what takes success out of successful survivor companies.

can we put a face on this idiocracy of an idea?

[tcrlaf]

“they are not kidding that exceeding the speed limit is dangerous on European roads”

Yeah..
No kidding...
Got that lesson on a German road south of Vilsek, with opposite banked turns.