ezrider55

Will this be use in the USA?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/12/01/canada_gps_speed/

Asmoran

Who knows. I have heard that some rental agencies will monitor the speeds in GPS enabled cars and charge you for going over the speed limit.

Chrisbert

I think no for the general public. IMO, cops want the revenue from casual speeders more than they want them to obey the speed limit.

NgoRX8

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Oh man.. that would suck...but how would this be considered RX-8 Discussion?

Anyway, if this was put in cars, everyone would be get ticketed.

TeamRX8

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no RX-8 content, it should be towed to the Lounge ...

gonnahanvan8

You all know that any car that has airbags also have a "black box" that police can use to determine a great deal of things about the car that happened in/during a crash. Things including throttle position, vehicle speed, application of brakes and brake force. There are a number of groups fighting over who has access to this information. It will become an interesting topic in the near future.

NomisR

Speed limit is the primary cause of the traffic jams we have anyways, why artificially limit the speed of the road when the max allowable flow of traffic is a lot higher...

rx8wannahave

I would be against anything that could track me/my car...I'm a weary of the gob-MENT...lol

KYLiquid

this reminds me of something funny I noticed just yesterday. Here in orlando they put in new digital speed limit signs on interstate 4, it runs from daytona to tampa, right thru downtown orlando and past all the theme parks.

They put in the digital speed limit signs so they could adjust the speed to control traffic flow...ie higher speeds durring good conditions, lower speeds durring bad. It makes sense on paper, but the idots in charge are not using them well. The old static speed limit signs read 55mph thru most of the city, with a few areas at 50mph.

I notice that most of the time the speeds are the same as they used to be, although they do sometimes raise the speed limit to 55 on the whole section thru town, or lower it to 50 thru the whole section.

Yesterday I noticed that even though it was light traffic, sunny, and clear, the speed limit was lowered to 50mph, and a few weeks back, in the middle of the night, with patches of fog around, the speed limit was 55mph in the same section.

They need to take note of the conditions better, IMO.

There are also those digital info signs every few miles on I4, the ones that tell you about traffic/crashes/delays ahead. Most of the time they tell you the distance to a exit, and the travle time for the current conditions.

Yesterday I was reading the signs and with no traffic it was pretty simple : "FL TURNPIKE 15MI - 15 MIN TRAVLE TIME" - "528 TOLL 10MI - 10MIN TRAVEL TIME" ect

So from reading the signs, traffic should be moving at 60mph, but the speed limit on the digital signs read 50mph.....so am I supposed to drive 50 or 60? in a cops eyes that up to 1 point and 100+ bucks if Im caught speeding. I know they could just be using round numbers, but its still funny.

None of this really matters as people on I4 (durring light/no traffic) drive at 70-80mph in the city, and out of the city its not un common to see packs of cars doing 80-90+mph

Blue87Sport

So how soon will Cinncinati Microwave, Valentine, etc. start selling tinfoil covers for GPS antennas?

And how long before Maryland bans aluminum foil?

Rx8maniac

thats bull what about people who love racing their cars legally ? whether its autox or drag strips. regardless ill drive at my likable speed regardless of stupid peddle pressure.

gonnahanvan8

I currently sell a product that you spray in the air while listening to your home stereo. It'd $95.00 and I claim that it improves the inage and soundstage of you cd's and dvd's. All the audiophiles love it. I've sold thousands of bottles of the magic stuff. I will soon have a new product that you can spray on you car to thwart police radar, and gps tracking abilities. I'll post the price as soon as i figure out how much people are willing to pay.

JRichter

The cost of these systems (equipment and operating) plus the loss of money collected from speeding tickets would be very expensive.

Roaddemon

That device would cause accidents and headon collisions when passing slow traffic. could also prevent a car from accellerating out of a dangerous situation. Auto company's would boycot it.
They could put rpm governors on cars right now if they wanted to. Would limit the speed a car could travel in each gear. But they have'nt. People will not buy high performce cars if that was done. The system will probably be used for company fleet cars, taxies etc. You'll never see it law for private vehicles.

Scrapula

When is traffic ever light on I-4? If I have to go to Orlando, I drive north on I-75 to Brooksville, then SR 50 across to the turnpike, just to avoid I-4.

TeamRX8

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just pull the fuse on, or disable, the GPS unit

WaitingforFI

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I think everyone does 80ish on rt 4 in Orlando. However when I drive on the 408 to work everyday I don't think I exceed 30mph

TODreamer

It wont fly.. someone will fight it in court and it'll collapse faster than you can say boo and they know

MikeW

We (drivers) set the speed limit.
The best speed limit is set at the 85-90th percentile.

http://www.motorists.org/issues/spee..._position.html

Aseras

that's BS. it's supposed to be 85% but usually it's closer to 25%

YT1300

When reading the title line of this post, my first thought was: "Isn't that what the brakes are for?"