Comments on: BMW Speed Limit Display a car that can read speed signs

By: No Name

No Name — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:29:55 +0000

Wonder how this will work with out (UK) signage. We have a ‘national’ speed limit sign a diagonal black stripe on a white background. This has speed limits depending of the type ot catagory of road either 50. 60 or 70mph with no repeaters often. Waste of time or money

By: B///M3

B///M3 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:01:01 +0000

“The Beamer will be the first production car available with Speed Limit Display….”

FYI….

“Beamer” = BMW Motorbike
“Bimmer” = BMW Automobile

Didn’t know motorbikes have speed limit display lol…just kidding.

By: AnthonyM

AnthonyM — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:32:51 +0000

I’m all for technology but not in dumb areas like this one. I can drive and I can read, why the hell do I want the car to read street signs for me? By the way I’m a driver with 1 point left on his licence due to many inadvertant speeding infringements of late yet I still hate this idea. Just a gimmick for me.

By: Minnow

Minnow — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:27:03 +0000

I wonder how it would work with some dumb road workers who put two speed limit signs either side of the road, like here in WA on the kwinana freeway, there was road works and there was a 60 and 80 sign on either side…. perhaps add them together?

By: Iamthestig

Iamthestig — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:19:57 +0000

“We suspect the first thing most would say is, why did it take so long? ”

Yes, CA, why did it take you so long to read about it ?…

Opel announced it for the Insignia back in June.

This sounds of a reworded press release with zero research done.

Poor effort Car Advice…

By: freddy

freddy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:58:31 +0000

This is hardly news. That technology is already an advertised feature of Vauxhall’s upcoming Insignia (a car that will start at less than 16,000 pounds in the UK), and will be available in the Insignia from next year. And BMW have only just announced it for the 7 series??? Big deal. Another example of innovations in cheap cars making a laughing stock of the (supposed) technological giants (how long did it take BMW, Merc, Audi etc to make their sounds systems MP3/ipod compatible?). And once this speed sign reading device trickles down to BMW’s other models, I wonder how expensive the option will be?

By: Reckless1

Reckless1 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:09:57 +0000

Electronic tags in the bitumen or overhead can easily interface with a car’s computer, and prevent the speed limit being exceeded. They can use tags to take money, so a small expansion of the functionality could be progressively introduced with all new cars.

But a simple move like that would kill revenue, wouldn’t it.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:07:16 +0000

Why don’t they just link it in with GPS. I mean, GPS can tell you the street name, so why not speed limits?