Safe Speed Forums

I am thinking :
that they will use ISA to not only start to charge for all roads used, (and not used in some cases when, as it will, go wrong) and also for every time that the limiter is turned off, and so a faster speed is used than the posted limit, and for all those ocasions the driver will have to justify why s/he did that and will be fined for every occasion.
This way about a quarter of the drivers will be off the roads in a few years, and then the Government can slap themselves on the back for achieving the targets agreed with Europe (years ago now) that by 2010 (or so forget the exact date) they will have got about 25% (7million) of UK drivers off the roads ! Not to say the massive fines imposed will solve several monetary problems for the government.

... perhaps ...

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As cynical as it sounds, I’d say their ultimate aim is to make driving as expensive and undesirable as possible. IMO where this is all leading is to price you off the road altogether, except for the lucky ones who have plenty of money of course.

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Voluntary speed control is the first step to acceptance of mandatory speed control.
All the proposed designs will have to be updated remotely, this will almost certainly be by some sort of gsm communication.
Which will mean a two-way flow of information.
Just because the driver has selected to only receive warnings and not to accept control does not mean that that decision will be final. It may well be that automatic speed control cannot be overridden in selected areas, or that it can ONLY be overridden in selected areas.
As for people being "driven off the roads by this system....unlikely. People are already being forced to reconsider personal transport in the light of economic reality. Public transport is looking better to me [cost-wise] than personal transport in SOME cases (it is only 12 quid return to brighton by rail.....ticket through a tourist office) (200 miles there and back).
However, the reality of disease infection on public transport means that buses are not a reality !

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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

Is that ow so many of the posters on these forums became infected with total paranoia?

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

Probably not.
Bearing in mind that gov is forcing people onto public transport, the first thing that happens if flu becomes pandemic is the closure of public transport.
No risk there then ?

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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

Have the proposers of this system ever actually used a sat-nav device?

I await the pile-ups caused by a driver pulling out of a 30mph side turning into an NSL DC in front of vehicles bearing down at 70, stamping on the loud pedal only to find his sat nav hasn't cottoned on to the 70 road.

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How about if the car in front is a bit late updating the 30 to nsl you have crossed so you decide to overtake thinking they are just bumbling and half way past the update comes through?

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Driving fast is for a particular time and place, I can do it I just only do it occasionally because I am a gentleman.
- James May

No greater risk than forgathering with sixty other people in your workplace. And much less risk than sending a child to school.

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

Will the device work via GPS speed (unreliable?) or instrument speed, which could be disconnected, overridden or recalibrated?

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Fear is a weapon of mass distraction