Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why Europe’s Mandatory Speed Limiters Mean The End Of Driving As You Know It
The Autopian ^ | 8 July 2024 | Matt Hardigree

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theautopian.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Travel
KEYWORDS: nannies
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-96 next last
Coming soon to a red state near you!
1 posted on 07/08/2024 4:26:55 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

A red state?


2 posted on 07/08/2024 4:31:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

Want to pass a vehicle? Sorry you can’t get up enough speed to do so.


3 posted on 07/08/2024 4:31:42 PM PDT by BipolarBob (First I was called a big fat lair and then showed a certain Lake of Respect.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

“[T]he whole world, including the United States, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.” -


4 posted on 07/08/2024 4:33:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

sounds more like a golden opportunity for a entrepreneur with mad hacking skills.


5 posted on 07/08/2024 4:33:05 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Northern Ireland is part of the UK.

Perhaps they mean the Republic of Ireland?


6 posted on 07/08/2024 4:33:23 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

First time a Ferrari gets passed by an un-chipped Fiat it’s splody head time...


7 posted on 07/08/2024 4:34:11 PM PDT by Billthedrill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai
A red state?

Yeah, pretty much.

Every car sold in the U.S. today meets California's compliance standards.

8 posted on 07/08/2024 4:35:21 PM PDT by Drew68
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Weren’t these in cars in the US during the 1980s? I recall all cars speedometers only going up to 85.


9 posted on 07/08/2024 4:38:35 PM PDT by LukeL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BipolarBob

“Want to pass a vehicle? Sorry you can’t get up enough speed to do so.”

Unlike here in the U.S. they actually drive civilized in Europe and keep right except to pass.

I’m surprised that the Germans are allowing these speed limiters since they pride themselves of the Autobahn and it’s long stretches of unlimited speed.


10 posted on 07/08/2024 4:38:56 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Not me. They will push until we push back. At some point, you have to push back.


11 posted on 07/08/2024 4:39:54 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LukeL

Oh, the cars would go faster than 85, all right. You just didn’t know how much faster you were going.

Or so I’ve been told.


12 posted on 07/08/2024 4:42:07 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Many of us lived through the 55 mile an hour speed limit back in the seventies, when the cops chased us instead of the serial killers.


13 posted on 07/08/2024 4:42:31 PM PDT by Luke21
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Drones


14 posted on 07/08/2024 4:43:27 PM PDT by butlerweave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

,


15 posted on 07/08/2024 4:44:04 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themrrselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

“Why Europe’s Mandatory Speed Limiters Mean The End Of Driving As You Know It”

While I have NO DOUBT that Biden’s people will do exactly the same here, should they win the election (assuming they still let us drive) - even so, Trump is too damn brash, rude, obnoxious to vote for and so my ability to control my cars when I drive is just something I will have to live without.
.
.
.
.

(see tagline)


16 posted on 07/08/2024 4:47:08 PM PDT by BobL (Yes, it's sarcasm, but use your brain when you vote, not your emotions)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Good thing all of the expensive EV’s can accelerate so quickly. Get to max and stay there until the juice runs out.


17 posted on 07/08/2024 4:47:44 PM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Not really sure why the lefty do-gooders hadn’t done this sooner. This and ticketing people who speed on toll roads by tracking their on and off time. Driving is a privilege. Look what they do to rights.


18 posted on 07/08/2024 4:48:41 PM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Once the speed limiters are in place, Ferrari announced it will implement a new sound system, audible on-demand breaking traction sounds as well as a choice race engine exhaust tones.


19 posted on 07/08/2024 4:50:27 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Luke21

“Many of us lived through the 55 mile an hour speed limit back in the seventies, when the cops chased us instead of the serial killers.”

Yeah it was 55 mph when i got my license. Later you could legally drive “reasonable and prudent”. And now it’s 80 mph all on the same stretches of interstate. When they say “it’s not about the money.....”


20 posted on 07/08/2024 4:51:18 PM PDT by utax
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-96 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson