Restrict cars to 70mph?

as above really..
sometimes you need to go faster than 70mph (avoid collisions, etc)
mercedes used to have such a system on their cars, but even the dealer told us to avoid it for this very reason!

and of course the fact that the UK has the lowest [all weather/year] speed limit on the continent :p (excl. scandinavia)
 
Limiting a car to 70 doesnt stop you going 60 in a 30 zone does it?

60 in a 30 zone is more dangerous than 90 on the motorway. So would be pointless.
 
pull2808 said:
Limiting a car to 70 doesnt stop you going 60 in a 30 zone does it?

60 in a 30 zone is more dangerous than 90 on the motorway. So would be pointless.
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thats because 60 in a 30 is double the speed limit set as safe maximum

90 on a motorway is safe yeah (70mph limit is outdated), but at 180 things get interesting lol
 
[TW]Fox;13300109 said:
Speed limits are set as safe maximums?
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in towns I agree thats the case..

maybe on motorways the speed limit should be the top speed of your motor, minus 20mph, so your not pushing it.

i'd be happy with that, and get to where I'm going twice as fast.
 
Flukester said:
in towns I agree thats the case..

maybe on motorways the speed limit should be the top speed of your motor, minus 20mph, so your not pushing it.

i'd be happy with that, and get to where I'm going twice as fast.
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It's a nice idea from your point of view to be sure :p But the average motorist is nowhere near competent enough to cruise at 100mph and safely observe and predict the road ahead.
 
I regularly drive on the Autobahns (well 5 or 6 times a year:p) and traffic doesnt flow any better than here, In fact ive had more near misses over there than here, so im not so sure thats a workable solution, you could remove the limits if all drivers and cars were equal, no doubt cars are far better than they were, but we as drivers havent got any better imo.
 
msm722 said:
What if it was taken a step further and the car was restricted to the speed limit of the road you were on, using some kind of GPS system?
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The government are working on this but it's a really stupid idea IMO.

People will just treat it like cruise control, I'm sure most of the people here wont but a lot of the idiots out there will, dumbing down driving further with the end result that some people will still be doing 70 even when it's chucking it down and the motorway is flooded.

Also have you actually used a GPS, ever been in the situation where you have two parallel roads and it can't figure out which one you are actually on with the result that the arrow keeps jumping between roads and it's constantly recalculating the route? What happens when you're in the outside lane overtaking two trucks and then the GPS suddenly decides that you're on the parallel 30mph B road next to the motorway and slows you down.. most likely answer is you'll get rear ended by one of the above mentioned numpties who has their foot to the floor doing 70.
 
I remember a docu show a few years ago sugesting this same thing. They gave a car witha gps limiter on it to a guy and watched him. He was more dangerous because he wasnt paying attention to the road as he was bored of driving slowly.

A little bit of speeding keeps the senses higher. Its only because we live in a country were 50 year old laws that are outdated stay because some pressure group says so, the filth in this case
 
also those of us who dont get caught speeding now will have to pay some other kinda tax that we wouldn't be paying as were not speeding. Its like smoking, let the people who do it pay the taxes
 
I actually had to break the speed limit during my driving test. While passing a bus in a bay he pulled out without indication just as I was about to pass, I judged it was not possible to brake and pull in so my only other option was to floor it and pass the bus before hitting the oncoming traffic. Sure it was only in a 40mph zone but it demonstrates where any mandatory limit is dangerous.
I did pass and instructor agreed it was my only reasonable course of action.

If there was a governed limit, driving on duel carriageways and motorways would present similar issues that governed lorries encounter where overtaking takes all day. Also in specs areas I find it really dangerous if you want to change lane, say if you need to get into the left hand lane for a junction, because everyone bunches up and leaves no gaps, you can't accelerate into a space so you often have to just force a lane change by getting car on left to slow and avoid you.
 
While we're at it, why not forcibly enforce some other strict laws?

Lets make it so your car doesnt start exactly on the day the tax runs out (easily done on most modern cars via the same "GPS tracking device" proposed) or maybe the day the MOT runs out (or maybe give them a weeks grace period to get it MOT'd), could also do the same for insurance.

Why not make every driver give a blood sample before the car will start to ensure their blood alcohol limit is < the legal max?

All of these things are easily installed into the majority of existing cars...

Why SHOULDNT we do this, and why shouldn't we enforce speed limits? For exactly the same reason smoking should never have been banned and things like fox hunting should never have been made illegal. I hate smoking, I dont agree with fox hunting but what I hate more than those things is the law being forced upon me, a government/general ruling system taking away my ability to break the law.

If I break the law, I should be punished and theres a very good chance I will be punished, but automatically enforcing the law leads to a general hatred of the system, as seen with speed cameras and a general divide between the people enforcing and the people being enforced. In the most radical of situations it can lead to revolution.

Technically speaking, no one should ever break the law and drive over 70, but to stop people doing so (and follow the example through in your head before judging it to be OTT) is paramount to the ideals of extreme fascism or communism. One person, through the systems of government or otherwise, should never be given the ability to control many others.

If I go 80 down the motorway, that is my choice to do so. I know its breaking the law and I know the consequences if I do so. I would rather resources had to be expended to catch me than I never have that choice in the first place.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Should just remove speed limits entirely. All the idiots on the road would then weed themselves out, leaving it safer for everyone else.
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great idea but obviously not nice for the people who these idots crash into;)


the 20mph less than the top speed your car is capable of is just stupid.if i delimited mine from 155mph it would do about 170mph,so take away the 20mph and you get 150mph.150mph isnt a safe speed to do on a public road regardless if its legal or not!!!
 
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