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Speed guns at dawn

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  • Started 13 years ago by freewhwheelin
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  1. ExcitableBoy
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    ""I'd like to see it done more covertly, catch all those people doing 55mph in a 30mph."

    I'd like to see it done overtly. Have people not driving at 55mph in a 30mph..."

    I don't think I explained myself very well as usual and you may well be right. However, in being overt with hi-viz jackets, the speeding driver sees you from afar and slows down to <30mph, passes you and speeds back up again. I'm sure we've all seen this happen. To have any affect you'd have to be on most roads 24/7. By being covert you could catch those that are speeding more effectively and get a truer picture of how much speeding is actually occuring.

    Ideally all cars would have a gadget that restricted their top speed to that of the limit of the road.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. Uberuce
    Member

    My conspiracy spidersense is tingling...

    It tells me that right now some very expensive lobbyists and some very old school ties are being employed by the GPS industry to make sure that no government gets the insanely sane idea of tying their products to the accelerator pedal. They know that it'd be the end of their industry. #damningindictment.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. Smudge
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    I don't think it's a conspiracy, I think the politicians simply lack the courage, and don't see any voted in it (well certainly not many gained and possibly lots lost :-(

    70mph speed limiters are fitted to many fleet vehicles now, satnavs "know" the majority of speed limits, most modern cars are electronically controlled and it would not be difficult to use an output from gps to restrict the maximum available speed for a given location.

    The tech is here, there is just no will to impose it.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. Uberuce
    Member

    True. I hadn't thought to consider that when a conspiracy gets big enough, it gets called democracy...

    Someone invent Helios for real and give us a JC Denton, g'wan.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. slowcoach
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    "Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) is a system in which vehicles are fitted with a digital map which contains details of the various speed limits. A global positioning system compares the vehicle’s position with the speed limit applicable on the road. An on-board computer then takes the appropriate action depending on the category of system that is being used."
    Scottish Government's Road Safety Framework

    The Scottish Government is committed to "Promote the voluntary use of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA).
    • Consider a pilot in Scotland to test out the effectiveness of voluntary ISA in road safety." between 2011 and 2014.
    (I wrote this before seeing the 2 above posts - This isn't saying our wonderful government do have the political will , even to promote voluntary ISA)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. splitshift
    Member

    damn ,I really wasnt wanting to get into this thread. Many years ago, studying for my mechatronics course at college, myself and a few others were working on an ISA type thingy. It is incredibly easy to fit to all vehicles, many are electronically governed anyway,and back in the very early nineties no one had sat nav , or gps. BUT most cars had RDS radios, where by they automatically tuned to the local traffic news. network was in existance then, its even better now,inductive looping in the road already exists, special limits,. Higher, OR lower could be implemented, ( accident ahead etc !)but we were given absolutely no help, from either car manufacturers, or the goverment who just replied that speed limits were not for engineering students to meddle with !( ok not in as many words !)
    Road safety is important, we all know this but hey money from speeders is even more important !If any goverment is serious about reducing speed on our roads all they need is big cahoonas ! The technology already exists, just not the willpower !One of our students who did a presentations on spring steel dynamics, now works( or did !) for Lotus cars, so we were being listened to !
    scott

    Posted 13 years ago #

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