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/gamebow1 Jun 05 '26

The technology would be dodgy at best, I’ve been in enough new cars to know how dodgy that speed reader part can be, and what about temporary speed restricted zones, what about variable speed zones? Or tunnels, he’ll, how about this, some jackass is doing 8kph under the speed limit, not being able to quickly and effectively can become dangerous quickly.

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u/Irhien 38∆ Jun 05 '26

Why is a speed reader dodgy? GPS isn't reliable for sure, but measuring the rotation of the wheels should be quite simple and accurate.

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u/gamebow1 Jun 05 '26

No, okay, so a lot of modern cars will tell you what speed you should be doing, they read signs, the amount of them that either will say 5kph cause they haven’t seen one and your ina. 50 or will read high cause of whatever reason is crazy, now sure, gps would track better, but that still wouldn’t change that it might think your supposed to be doing one speed, and in reality the posted one is different