I recently rented a huge truck (the biggest you can rent with a normal car drivers license) and it had a ton of high tech stuff, lane departure warning, speed warnings, auto braking, and so much more.
The issue was when I was on the highway going 70mph (the max speed of the truck, also artificially restricted) there was a tiny side road with a speed limit of 35mph, and the truck on the highway slammed the brakes with warnings on the dash that I was exceeding the speed limit of 35, but I’m on a highway with a speed limit of 75mph.
Stupid technology. Makes things more dangerous than it should be.
@Retro_unlimited @cm0002
“Stupid technology. Makes things more dangerous than it should be”
That would be cars themselves. 70mph is way too fast for a car to travel. It might be a decent speed for a train because trains are on a controlled fixed path where cars and pedestrians can only cross in front of them at controlled crossings. Highways are as controlled as a carnival bumper cars ride. 35mph seems about right for cars on the highway. Drivers also kill a lot of wildlife outside the cities.
There’s gotta be a “subscription fee” for these speed limiters for every month they’re installed foe the offender. Fees to install them. Fees to remove them. Fees for the convenience of the ability to make electronic payments. Then there’s the fine for speeding in the first place, the convenience fees to pay the fine, the fee for the traffic safety course online to avoid higher insurance rates, etc.
The State is being enshittified by privatization. It’s not as if the State isn’t difficult enough to deal with on its own, but now the layers of shitty middle men existing to extract tolls for every interaction is growing.
Edit: after looking around I found this program is called “Intelligent Speed Assistance” (ISA).
@RememberTheApollo_ @cm0002
Speed limiters should be standard on all cars, like seat-belts. They should be retrofitted on older cars. A GPS module isn’t that expensive. They are found in cheap phones that cost less than $50. Most cars on the road today have an ECU (Electronic Control Unit) The air and fuel mixture can be controlled to keep the car under a specific speed, easily. There is no reason a car needs to go 70 mph ever. 25 should be the top speed.That’s certainly an opinion.
@cm0002 They should use devices to slow ALL cars. The devices should force all cars to stay under the speed limit and the speed limit should be 30 kilometers per hour.
Force cars to not be able to go quicker than a brisk walk. Force everyone to either walk or, if they are in a hurry, ride a bike. Your commute just went from a thirty minute drive to a 5 hour bike ride? Sucks to be you. Can’t afford a place closer to work? Sucks to be you. Planning on visiting relatives in another state and can’t afford air fair and other options, trains or buses, don’t go there? Sucks to be you, set aside a week to get there. An elderly relative is flying into the closest airport, with is now a 4 hour drive away, well…better plan accordingly.
@sin_free_for_00_days
People did all of those things before cars existed. #CarBrain #MotoNormativity #FuckCars
