EU plans to fit all cars with speed limiters

[GTI5]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/road-safety/10278702/EU-plans-to-fit-all-cars-with-speed-limiters.html#disqus_thread

Not sure on the practicalities of this and what the possible implications for the car industry might be...and the birth of a 'black market' in speed limiter removal and speed data spoofing?

Does the cost of implementation and enforcement outweigh the benefits? After all according to statistics road deaths are falling in the UK without the technology and in the EU deaths thought to be related to speed represent around 20% of total fatalities.

Of course it could just be a bit of Media scaremongering...

Discuss!

[Scottymon]

Dangerous; it will cause more congestion on national speed limit roads where people will fear overtaking grandad in his micra to be hit with the brakes mid-manoeuvre.

Even more dangerous is that only NEW cars will be fitted with this, so you have a mix-match of old and new cars some with, some without the tech. unless of course they plan on retro-fitting at a huge cost to the consumer. 

It would also kill the performance car market stone dead.

They would also lose money in revenue at the pumps, as overall people will be doing better MPG.

It won't happen.

[Deako]

It will never happen.

Not least the cost involved, but you imagine Ferrari. Oh yes, this is our new model. Hits the speed limit in first gear.

What also then happens when a car misreads a seed sign for the first time, anchors the brakes on and causes a massive pile up.

They always tell you about this stuff to cause outrage, then they will implement something not quite as bad and we all go "it could have been worse"

[stealthwolf]

Won't stop most accidents. Majority are down to driver rather than speed. IIRC something like excess speed is thought to contribute to only 2% of all accidents.

[Poverty]

Second hand performance car values would appreciate massively if this was to happen.

Sensationalist writing IMO, would kill too many industries and revenue streams

[Scottymon]

It's also taking into consideration the system is faultless... perhaps one time the system thinks the outside lane of a motorway is a 30, and you've got that older performance car coming along at 95mph+ (which is the current limit isn't it ;), all of a sudden braking to 30 without warning.

I definitely think the more control you take away from a driver the less they think and concentrate on the road, and that's when more accidents happen.

[Andy]

Been discussed before and it will never happen