RE: No more speeding, ever, at least in the UK

["Joel Ashman" <joel.ashman@xxxxxxxx>]

I look at it as something new to Hack!  ;)

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Thomas Emberson
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Subject: No more speeding, ever, at least in the UK



I hope this is a joke, but hey, its on the internet, it must be
true :-)


http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,425344,00.html

	'Promising' tests on car speed limiters extended

	Martin Wainwright
	Saturday January 20, 2001
	The Guardian

	The government has commissioned a trial of speed limiters
	in cars, which could lead to computer-controlled overrides
	as a standard fitting within five years.

	Twenty trial vehicles will be fitted with a system which
	has won praise on a prototype Ford Escort driven over
	thousands of rigidly monitored miles in the past three
	years.

	The tests, which prevented the car from topping 30mph,
	40mph and other limits, were "highly reliable" according
	to the Institute of Transport Studies at Leeds University,
	which has won funding for the expanded trials from the
	Department of Transport, Environment and the Regions.

	"We've had two dozen people driving along a 40 mile route,
	including the A1M motorway," said Oliver Carsten, head of
	the project, which has also been demonstrated on the north
	circular road in London.  The system uses a computerised
	navigator linked to the car's electronic controls and a
	positioning satellite. Areas with speed restrictions are
	fed into the system to trigger action as soon as a limit
	is breached.


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