Posted on 07/08/2024 4:26:55 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
If you’re in Europe, it’s now a choice that the government makes. As of July 7th, all new cars sold on the continent or in Northern Ireland have to have a mandatory speed limiter installed. The system is generally known as Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) and it’s probably going to show up on a lot of vehicles in the United Kingdom as well because the country basically shares a car market with the rest of its neighbors.
...drive 88.5 and live on the continent this is your new reality, though there are a couple of ways around it.
...“Arguably ISA will mark the beginning of the end of a world in which people choose their cars on the basis of its top speed and the time it takes to accelerate from 0 to 60mph. "It’s a sign of things to come,” he continued. “Increasingly, the car is going to decide what you can and can’t do.”
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Republic of Ireland is not in the EU. Northern Ireland is.
In Europe the distribution of speeds seems much broader, so you have some people driving under, some a little over and some driving very fast, way over the speed limit. So people must get out of the way.
I noticed there's a big class difference: cheap econoboxes are slow to medium, people with expensive Audis, Mercedes and BMWs drive a lot faster. Here I see Deshaunte driving a clunker with a bumper barely hanging onto the car at 75 mph.
Is that 88.5 mph or kph?
No doubt. I’m sure they’ll be selling those speed-governed Eurotrash vehicles in Florida.
F that! My Kia Soul is calibrated to 120 mph or thereabouts. I doubt that little 4-cylinder can actually reach that high, but it’s on the speedometer. No way I’m giving that up!
Probably 88.5 mph limiters. 130 kmph is max in most of Europe. A lot of places a lot slower. Limited stretches in Germany and Switzerland maintain the high speed tradition. Plenty of web sites explain. Very, very expensive fines for speeding.
—”They will push until we push back. “
Easier said than done.
Many pressure points that will stop you.
No insurance for speeders, I have friends who receive a discount for having the speed of their car tracked.
No insurance, not allowed to purchase gasoline.
Photo speed monitoring is everywhere!
Speeding cars will be impounded; post a mega bond if you want your car back.
A bounty system.
Report a speeder and collect cash.
“Now you might outrun my old Chevrolet but you can’t outrun my own two way
Lion’s awaitin’ at the station to hear from me
Now you’re gonna be a wishin’ I believed in extradition...
Yeah I don’t take no lip...
(I run the grocery store down there and I pump the gas and I’m the dogcatcher too yeah
The judge that’s me put up your bond for you if you like
And if you happen to wreck your car on the way to the courthouse)...”
What could possibly go wrong? She mused sarcastically.
Huh? Republic of Ireland is in the EU. The UK, which includes Northern Ireland, is not in the EU.
In the next week or so I’ll be picking up my new 2024 GMC Sierra. I don’t want to deal with speed limiters, kill switches or alcohol detectors. I’m 70, so this is probably the last vehicle I buy.
Always winter. Always winter and never Christmas.
—”Get to max and stay there until the juice runs out.”
Possibly where you live?
Around here you cannot exceed the speed of the jamoke in front of you.
During one Chicago snowstorm I invited some friends to ride the train with me, he said his 4wd and monster mudders would get through no problem and he could ride the embankment if traffic stopped.
The next day they limped in about 11 AM and was massively hungover.
Traffic froze and a million cars were stuck on the embankment!
So they got off the expressway and purchased some beer and potato chips... About every couple of miles...
Home well past midnight.
The train was a bit late due to the many extra passengers.
A charged Tesla battery will provide heat for ~60 hours, a dead battery not so much.
“The Stellantis brand is debuting what it’s dubbed a “Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust” system in the new 670-horsepower 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona — the first EV version of the Charger muscle car. The system replicates the deafening burble of Dodge’s Hellcat V8 engine...”
—”Once they figure out how to reverse remote hack the device, you’ll have politician’s cars slamming into walls at 200mph.”
“To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar...”
—”Will they be able to speed up, or are they perpetually governed to be slow?”...
Forever slow.
And that is all she wrote.
If the car had a tach and you did a little math...you could figure out how fast you were going.
Criminals won’t be following the rules, and neither will a bridge crumbling behind you.
Even a 90HP 1.9L Ford Escort would go 100MPH.
Probably governed at 110MPH or so, unless it came with H rated tires (or better).
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