Car Tech 101: Speed limiters could prevent speeding tickets | Cooley

Опубликовано 25 июля 2019, 11:00

Our relationship with speeding and tickets is an odd one: We drive cars that are capable of top speeds that make no sense in the hands of average drivers and in common situations. More from Brian Cooley - roadshow.co/xzHqTV

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Managing the temptation to speed is a hallowed cat-and-mouse game between you and the police that is ineffective.

But that game is starting to change as new cars will soon prevent speeding -- or at least make you think about it every time.

There is a new proposal in the US Senate to limit the top speed of big rig trucks to 65 mph using electronic speed governor technology already present in many of them of them but not required to be used.

The bill's authors cite a DOT study that found such a speed cap could save between 60 and 200 lives a year out of the 1,300 annual fatal crashes involving big rigs on highways.

As you can imagine, truckers aren't happy about a 65 mph speed limit technology, believing it would create dangerous speed differences between trucks and other traffic, especially on highways with speed limits as high as 80 mph.

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