Comments on: NSW trialling electronic speed limiter in cars

By: Kieran

Kieran — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:27:17 +0000

When will the various authorities realise, that there are in fact very few “accidents” on the road. Almost every “accident” is preventable in some way or another, and very few accidents can actually be blamed on speed alone – after all, the driver is in control of the car’s speed. And if the Australian Design Rules had been updated to be in line with current technology as it’s evolved over the years, I’d be willing to bet that by now the road toll would have at least halved. Furthermore, in Germany, where there are no speed limits on the national Autobahns, they have half as many fatal “accidents” BY NUMBER (not percentage) than we do here in Australia – and they have FOUR TIMES our population. Clearly, speed isn’t the issue here. If the government(s) spent more money on proper driver education training, and less on scaremongering advertisements, we would have a country of much safer, and much more skilled drivers.

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:37:23 +0000

Yet another reason to vote out the moronic NSW Government.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:31:43 +0000

News just in. electronic speed limiter is in, NSW REGO gone up 1000% to cover for the speeding fine financial blackhole

By: Kovalainen

Kovalainen — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:17:18 +0000

Maybe the government should start teaching people how to drive properly, first. Nearly every single car crash is caused by human error.

By: Spitfire

Spitfire — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:20:32 +0000

While we are on the subject of stupid politicians and their dim witted beauracrats, this is worth a listen.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2009/2578568.htm

By: realcars

realcars — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:52:01 +0000

Yeah and what about speed limiting on trucks?

Is this enforced?

This should be a priority to stop companies from forcing Truck drivers to break the law to achieve unrealistic time tables and placing the rest of us in danger in doing so.

By: swampdawg

swampdawg — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:10:16 +0000

Speed limiting has NOT pulled too many trucks/ B-Doubles into line. I guess while motorists are electronically speed limited they can be pushed into a better pace by the tailing truck. The RTA circus tent is on fire again.

By: SpeedFlux

SpeedFlux — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:33:45 +0000

The good thing, it will be real efficient for brake, but I would refuse to purchase a car with it installed.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:01:13 +0000

Here we go again. The government misses the point and just starts throwing out random ideas. The problem is that most people don’t think this sort of thing through: they see the story about how young drivers are mass murderers waiting to happen on ACA and then they hear about this. Suddenly the world is saved, let’s just ignore situations where you have to accelerate out of danger and overtaking.

This really isn’t that hard to work out. You take all the money that gets pumped into ridiculous ideas like this and the speed kills campaigns and put it into subsidising driver training. And I don’t mean the ones where they teach you how to reverse park or when to use your blinkers, I mean proper training. Put people on a skidpan and teach them how to handle the car properly.

And to support that how about taking some time out of the oh-so relevant junk being taught in schools and put it into something like this. I personally would like to see things like the weight transfer of the car taught (as in the theoretical side of driving, I mean it’s certainly more relevant than, say, Shakespeare), but even just showing those shock videos (the ones where they show you a real accident) would be better than nothing.

By: The Stag

The Stag — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:40:20 +0000

Yes, yes, too controlling of us drivers etc etc. But… I’m afraid this system will come in time like it or not. The positive side is that all the people who take off slowly from the lights and do stupid things will have to move uniformly. Picture this: everybody’s speed limiter/accelerator kicks in at a green light or higher speed limit area and a body of cars increases speed together, instead of the chaos of some people dribbling along half awake not realizing they are holding people up (or too bloody selfish). And, it may stop the stupidity of running a red light because “I didn’t see it” and almost killing someone, which was the case with me last year.