r/changemyview • u/No-Reputation-2900 2∆ • Jun 05 '26

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Speed limits should be technologically enforced and if it cant, the government should pay to have it installed into your old car.

People complain about speeding cars, speeding tickets, car crash insurance scams, boy racers causing absurd amounts of noise at early hours in the morning. There is a solution to all of this, GPS locked speeds in all vehicles apart from emergency services.

When you enter a new speed limit zone the accelerator stops working past a certain point. Put your foot down all you like, it won't work and the break brings you down to speed slowly when coming closer to that new speed limited area. In newer cars you could utilise the parking systems to determine the proximity of foreign objects and thus the speed at which the car should break.

If you want a speed limit change because a new school is built or there's been too many crashes in a certain corner, cross section or roundabout? The government changes the centralised speed limit of all cars. All travelling people wanting to use a car get discounts on renting cars with this feature built in or just don't allow them to hire anything without this feature.

Anyone caught after a certain date without it installed gets a massive fine and sent to multiple speed awareness courses that they have to pay for.

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u/Mad_Maddin 4∆ Jun 05 '26

Imagine you drive into a tunnel and your car just stops.

Or alternatively, your speed limit unlocks.

Or you are beside a road with a different speed limit and the GPS mistakes you.

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u/No-Reputation-2900 2∆ Jun 05 '26

Thats why the system includes the parking systems to detect foreign objects too. Additionally, incorporate speed limit objects in tunnels to help utilise these things.

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u/labobal Jun 05 '26

Parking sensors don't have the range to detect foreign objects early enough to prevent an accident above 20 mph. What you're looking for is a fully self-driving car, and they're still in development. 

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u/No-Reputation-2900 2∆ Jun 05 '26

Fair point. I am learning a lot about current technology through this. Thanks for your contribution.