EU May Order Speed-Limiters Fitted To UK Cars

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British drivers could be forced to have their cars fitted with technology that keeps them within the speed limit under new EU rules.

The planned road safety regulations would require new vehicles to have systems capable of detecting limits through cameras or satellites and automatically applying the brakes.

Existing cars would have to be fitted with the devices, which would mean that no car in the UK could go over the 70mph speed limit for motorways.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin will oppose the plans
But Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin will fight the move after he was asked for his views ahead of formal proposals by the European Commission (EC) this autumn.

A Government source said: "It is definitely something that he is keen to resist and he has told officials that it is something we don't want to do.

"To be forced to have automatic controls in your car amounts to Big Brother nannying by EU bureaucrats."

The EC's Mobility and Transport Department wants to roll out the Intelligent Speed Authority (ISA) technology in an attempt to cut the death toll from road collisions by a third by 2020.

More than 30,000 people die on the road in EU countries every year and 1.5 million are injured, with 120,000 left permanently disabled.

But Mr McLoughlin has told officials that the UK has one of the best road safety records in Europe, with deaths down from 1,901 to 1,754 last year - the lowest figure since records began in 1926.

French roads saw 3,645 die in accidents last year, while Germany suffered 3,657 fatalities.

ISA technology can use satellites which beam limits automatically to cars from a database or cameras which are able to read road signs.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1135815/eu-may-order-speed-limiters-fitted-to-uk-cars

Good or bad idea?
 

NEA. I am an irritating stick to the limit driver now I am on 9 points, ironically, only 3 for speeding.
 

A device that literally has no other purpose then to stop people breaking the law is always a good idea.

If you don't approve this, then what you want is to abolish the speeding laws.
 

It is bad driving that causes the problems. The EU proposal would be Euro wide not just in the UK. Think about the rest of the proposal which was to link cars to GPS satellites so that they could be slowed down from space, bad do, means cars could be hacked!!!!!!!!!!

BTW new laws now in are to do with Undertaking, Middle lane hogging.

Yuo can if you wish thousands have, buy dashboard cams and film bad driving. There is a facility then to upload the video to the Police who will take action.
 
Crazy idea. It would cost a fortune to backfit this to all vehicles. I'm sure there are more cost effective ways to cut fatalities on the roads.
 

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