Mandatory Speed Limiters on your bike!

[Suntan Sid]

Marvellous, the, unelected, Eurocrats want to fit speed limiters to all vehicles!

Euro Nonsense here!

A recipe for disaster, if ever there was one!

I'd like to predict a riot, but apathy will win out, no doubt!
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[SteveZZR]

Can't see it happening.
In fact, I can see it.being smited down as dangerous.for bike. Imagine accelerating out of a corner and your bike suddenly bangs the brakes on because you're going "too fast", your line goes to shit, and you end up in a bush.

[CaNsA]

Didnt some kitten protector suggest this a few years back?

[lihp]

I agree with this fully, far too many bikes made for the road nowadays that are way too fast for the road, and way beyond what is ever necessary.

There's no reason not to limit bikes to 75 or 80mph or so to stop the idiots, sensible ones won't be affected.
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[lihp]

It will never happen, too much money will be lost from speeding tickets
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[lihp]

Think how easy it will become to get your car license if you're a mong and just keep your foot flat down regardless
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[CaNsA]

It was said before,

[Suntan Sid]

I doubt it will happen any time soon, not in the way, the article suggests, ie automatic detection of speed limits!
Unless there is a 100% guarantee, (which is impossible), that the technology will never put anyone in danger and will never fook up, then it's a non starter, IMO!
Even if the systems were infalible, there are too many scenarios were this technology is going to result in injury and death!
The lawyers must be rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the, mahoosive, compensation claims looming on the horizon.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

My current bike is almost 20 years old. If they were to go ahead with something like this, I'd buy the latest model bike I could that doesn't have the technology (maybe two, keep one for spares) and that would pretty much sort me until I pop me clogs.
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[Rogerborg]

[Suntan Sid]

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They were working on Intelligent Speed Adaptation at Leeds Uni when I was working there 10 years ago. They fitted it to a fleet of Skoda Fabias and conducted tests over a couple of years.

I'm not 100% certain but I don't recall a single accident caused by any of the fleet although I seem to remember one being hit by a woman driver while it was stationary.

It was concluded that while it was fundamentally a good idea the reality of all cars being fitted with it, as opposed to only a few, was incredibly different.
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[pepperami]

So we end up with yet another piece of gizzmo on our bikes
Wont be long before someone finds a way round it/disconnecting it? I hope?
Maybe a gizzmo on the side of the road that sends a signal to your bike to slow down? .... could it be that they might catch fire?/spontaneously combust
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[Rogerborg]

[G]

Incidentally, none of this 'Satellites beaming you the speed limit' stuff - bet it'd be exactly like the GPS nav devices that show the speed limit. Except connected to your injectors, or course. Probably tracking, too.

What happens when it decides you're on the 30 next to the motorway not the motorway will be interesting - but it should be easy to program for that and possible they even do now as I haven't had that for ages!

[FretGrinder]

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[MC]

When's the referendum happening?
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[Ed Case]

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Thanks for hunting down the data, Keith.

The work certainly went on for the two years I was there, and for a few years after it seems, so I'm guessing the 6 months is the actual time spent on the road rather than building the equipment, fitting up the Skodas and collating the data.
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