Victoria’s ‘hoon’ drivers to test state government GPS speed device

By Matt Brogan | January 13th, 2010

The nanny state has taken a new, technical approach to so-called ‘hoon’ drivers this morning launching a new GPS speed device designed to curb speeding.

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Roads and Ports Minister, Mr Tim Pallas, this morning launched Intelligent Speed Assist – a special GPS speeding device that warn drivers when they go over the limit – which will be put to a three month trial later this year in cars belonging to more than 60 repeat ‘hoon’ offenders. In all, a total of 500 drivers across the state will eventually be selected to test the technology.

The GPS speed-mapping technology is also used in London and in Sweden. The device gives an audible beep that tells drivers they are over the speed limit.

“The device has been designed to assist motorists to manage their speed,” Mr Pallas said.

“The ISA devices use advanced Speed Limit Mapping technology funded by the TAC and developed by VicRoads to identify and record speed limits across the Victorian road network.”

The State Government has invested $2 million and the technology will be available free to anyone who has a GPS system.

MisterTwo

Speed Mapping technology is used all over the UK, not just London.
Valet Dabess

will be available? so we have to buy it? who’s gonna buy a gps that beeps at you and tells you when you go over the speed limit?
Shak

Most GPS systems already have this as standard and it wont stop anyone from speeding when you can just turn the volume down. Unless you can physically stop the speed from creeping up, $2million taxpayer dollars have just gone down the drain.

PN

this is correct.

my sat nav is nearlly 2 years old and has this feature. you can actually go into the setting and switch it off!

only issue is, everytime you want to drive the car you must connect the sat nav up and issues with theft!

MK

It got nothing to do with a ‘beep’. Information will somehow be recorded and be available to government for ”monitoring” purposes. And then it can be expanded from there on to all motorists for ”safety purposes”. Desperate need for a change in government, China 2 here we come(anybody seen the Google incident on the news?)
David

My Navigation System tells me exactly where to go, if I am going too fast or too slow, when the next break in driving should be on long-haul trips, and if my driving has the potential to make the kids in the back seat sick. There is no volume or “off” switch, but it’s my fault for marrying her I suppose..
Anthrax

What a joke!

Our Government has completely lost the plot on this. (As has the TAC with their ludicrous road signs – i.e. “Slowing down won’t kill you”)

Why don’t they just spend this money on putting more police on the road and book those who spend more time doing things other than concentrating on the road? This would be more productive.
Nick

What stopping the “Hoon” from leaving the GPS at home? Also, every car has a speedo and if you are over the limit you would generally know about it. Why? because you look at it! If your hell bent on speeding why would you slopw down just because something in the car goes beep.
OzeWander

Some people are already missing the point of this strategy. I will break it down into key points for those who are struggling to understand:

- repeat ‘hoon’ offenders to get the technology
- more than likely wired to cars ignition as to prevent circumvention (bypassing) similar to the BAC breath testers for repeat drink drivers.
- a proactive approach to ‘assist’ problem motorists (its a privilege, not a right remember?)
- repeat offenders to pay for this device. Sounds good to me.

This is a great way of tracking those who persist in risking their own as well as innocent peoples lives by blindly ignoring the road laws.

Bring it I say.
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I will place the GPS system safely in the grinder and switch it always on… so vehicle wont cross speed limits but sends the inputs correctly to authority.. how is it..
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Rick

This is how it will go
1 introduce this system to target repeat ” hoon ” offenders as a ” trial ”
2 show statistics that show it’s working and has stopped hoons from being hoons( that’s the easiest way to get the general public to go along with it )
3 again more stats ,tell the general public that the audible beep has saved millions of lives so now all cars will be fitted with this life saving technology
4 now the catch ” stats show that all vehicles involved in accidents were speeding ” so to stop you speeding we are going to police the monitoring side of your now mandatory system and every time you speed we are going to mail you a ticket

While this might sound far fetched so did the possibility of taxing people just for existing 5 yrs ago and guess what the Carbon Tax is here. It probably won’t happen for 10yrs or more . But you would be foolish to think that it’s not where the government is heading
Flow

The ones in most cars are set at one speed, not per the road’s limit.
Shak

You can change the limit if you access the trip computer and then just change it.