"All new cars could be fitted with speed limiters under EU plans"

[CitizenKane]

Could this be a reality soon?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irel...lans-1.3840046

In my experience performance car owners tend to be more responsible than most other drivers, but despite that this seems like something that would massively impact on the market for performance cars (other than for track use of course). Why would anybody buy an M car for road use if it can't actually go any faster than any other car on the road?

Thoughts?

[Big H]

Love the quote from the AA dude:

“Dodgem cars are all fitted with speed limiters but they still seem to crash.”

And more sensibly:

“Sometimes a little speed also helps to keep safe on the road, for example over-taking a tractor on a country road or joining a motorway."

[JordanCoupe]

Honestly I'm not too worried about it, any of the plans I've looked at always seem to mention overrides and the like for the speed limiter. Limiting a car to a 'low' speed potentially brings up all sort of legal questions in the event of a crash that could be attributed to the car being unable to utilize its own performance potential, as said in the overtaking a tractor scenario and the like.

Plus you have the same problem as autonomous cars face; how do these new limited cars play nice with older unlimited cars on the same roads?

Ultimately I see full autonomy being the death of fun driving far more so than these kind of measures. I always thought the driving scenes in iRobot (the movie) were a distinct possibility for the distant future of transport. Using technology to make transport far more capable and efficient than it currently is seems far more like the kind of progress the world will push for rather than endlessly trying to make the weakest link in the current system, us, work better.