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SSJMarx ,

Like 90% of people speed all the time. This system would produce so much data it would be useless.

wolfpack86 ,

Either that or it would be so lucrative we could fund universal healthcare

Except we all know it would fund cool new guns and tanks for your local municipality.

diskmaster23 ,

They would totally use it for infrastructure and continue to have single family housing. I.e. not learn a damn thing.

answersplease77 ,

but what if I only went above limit for 1 second by mistake? vigilante snitching is not the police to decide to give me ticket

800XL ,

Surprised it took this long. Well, guess that means it’s time to faraday cage the 5g radios in the vehicles or find a way to create a super small jammer that can only broadcast in your car. Some sort of license plate blocker that only shows at a certain angle too.

Fuck that shit.

Reverendender ,

You can get the license plate thingies on eBay

PriorityMotif ,
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License plate blockers are illegal in most states now because of the implementation of privately owned license plate readers that track you and sell the data back to police.

suction ,

How is this bad? Speeding is a huge problem ever since the Fast & Furious movies made young guys think it’s cool to drive 180km/h through cities.

ProvableGecko ,

Police. The problem is the police.

Woht24 ,

Fucking mouth breather

morphballganon ,

Douchebags have been speeding since before FAF

But it’s bad because say traffic is going 20 over the speed limit. You go with it since that’s safer than going the speed limit. Then you get a ticket for it?

suction ,

That’s not speeding, which means recklessly driving like a madman - and 20 mph over is not a small amount when the limit is 55.

The „it’s not illegal if everybody does it“ defence also isn’t going to help you. Because it’s the slipperiest of slopes.

I go over the limit sometimes, too, and when I get caught I pay the fine like an adult, instead of making up childish excuses why it was actually fine to do so.

And anyway, the fines are adjusted by how much you went over, if you just slightly go over, it’s cheaper.

So in summary, you’re an idiot and I hope you get caught doing something really bad soon,

lightnsfw ,

The problem is that a lot pf times the limit is a joke. It needs to be set what is actually safe, not arbitrarily low to create speed traps or whatever. There’s really no reason an interstate that’s more or less straight for 100 miles should be limited to 55/60. People are not going to stick to that because they can safely go a lot faster (depending on traffic obviously) but then you have others who will rigidly adhere to the speed limit while ignoring proper lane usage. The combination of the two types of driver create dangerous bottlenecks where you have congestion and people weaving in and out to get past slower drivers.

Fixing the speed limit would at least eliminate the issues caused by people using as a justification to drive slower than the rest of traffic in whatever lane they want. The next step would be to enforce properly keeping right if you are not passing which is what is responsible for a lot of the dangerous congestion people encounter on the road.

As for what Ford is doing either way it’s stupid but if they’re going to do that why not just make the system limit the top speed to whatever the current speed limit is instead? You know, actually fix the “problem”.

MonkRome ,

The safest speed to drive is the speed of traffic. It’s not that “everyone’s doing it” is an excuse, it’s literally the safest and therefore most ethical choice.

suction ,

Don’t tell me that, tell that to the officer giving you a ticket lmao

MonkRome ,

Most officers don’t ticket for speed of traffic, the uniform vehicle code (federal advisory on traffic laws) literally advises them not to for obvious reason. Most cops will focus on cars exceeding both the speed of traffic and the speed limit. If you drive you whole life going the speed of traffic you are very unlikely to be ticketed ever.

Sylvartas ,

You do realize the police will jump at the opportunity to give you a ticket for going 1 mph above the limit for 5 seconds while overtaking ?

bluewing ,

Perhaps in rare cases. But most polices can’t be arsed to make a traffic stop for all but the most egregious instances. Otherwise you probably would have a few hundred tickets yourself.

Sylvartas ,

In this case they wouldn’t have to make a traffic stop. In my country they would still have to fill some paperwork which might dissuade them (except if they need to keep their numbers up) but I’m sure there are some places where they could legally automate that shit

bluewing ,

Sure they can install traffic cameras and there are places that do to monitor speeds and stop signs/lights. Those are often rigged to add as much income as is ‘legally possible’. And they can be defeated if you so desire. Plus, in places like where I live, a traffic ticket must written “On the operator the vehicle” not to the vehicle itself. So cameras where I live.

Plus, are you content to let a stupid drive continue to drive and endanger everyone else he passes on the road?

Madison420 ,

Do you think no one sped before fast and the furious a movie famously inspired by people driving like assholes on city streets?

bluewing ,

No. But asshole drivers speeding, driving under the influence, running traffic stop lights/signs are still killing themselves and others at an impressive clip. And show no signs of slowing down - pun intended.

You would think that killing enough of those dumbasses would improve the breed like Darwin says it should. But nope.

Madison420 ,

Sure but the cause isn’t a c list movie.

Maggoty ,

We’ve had the technology for a long time. And speeding really is a contributing factor to motor vehicle accidents and fatalities. If we’re going to have a society that requires being in cars then we need to be a society with severe rules for putting the rest of us in mortal danger.

bittersweets ,

Make it automatic then, why report a crime when you can limit the speed. Cut out the middle man, also defund the police.

Maggoty ,

I’d rather that too.

ImADifferentBird ,
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It looks like this system is designed to snitch on the other cars around the snitch car, rather than the snitch car itself.

Chestrade , (edited )

Why not just have a speed cap on cars?

Edit : I see I got a few dislikes. I was actually genuinely curious. Thanks for the answers!

ThePantser ,
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And have it auto adjust based on the roads limit. We have gps and data for every road. Driving is a privilege not a right, nobody has the right to speed faster than the posted limit.

Vent ,

I’ll stop speeding when the mfs around here stop building 6 lane roads with a 30mph speed limit.

vaultdweller013 ,

Ill stop speading when I stop having freebird play randomly.

Jeeve65 ,

No speed cap yet, but all new cars sold in the EU must have a signal that alerts the driver if they’re driving faster than the current speed limit.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a61532276/mandatory-speed-limiters-europe-cars/

superkret ,

I hope they make it 80dB loud and sound like nails on a chalkboard.

chonglibloodsport ,

Because it’s dangerous. Sometimes you have to exceed the speed limit to avoid a collision.

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A_Random_Idiot ,

Ford trying to patent a way to bankrupt themselves for when no one ever buys another ford ever again.

andrewth09 ,

Don’t worry, the federal government will bail them out.

A_Random_Idiot ,

gotta syphon that money out of government somehow.

iAvicenna ,
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when are we gonna have biomedical devices that directly send their test results to health insurance companies? I feel like we are missing this for a perfect Dystopia

Ensign_Crab ,

I see Ford wants to produce only cop cars.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
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Lord, Mr. Ford, I just wish that you could see what your simple horseless carriage has become.

_stranger_ ,

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FuglyDuck ,
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Cue the “I wasn’t driving, that was someone else!” Defense.

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venusaur ,
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Should be Dodge

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    WarlordSdocy ,

    This only reports other drivers around the Ford speeding so what would happen is they would still do that and you would get in trouble for going 10 over.

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