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Will a speed control device be fitted in UK cars by the end of 2009?

Background: Automatic speed control devices should be installed in cars to force motorists to stick to speed limits, an influential pressure group recommended today.

The Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT), a government transport advisory group, said that up to 29 per cent of injury accidents on the road could be prevented by the voluntary introduction of intelligent speed adaption (ISA).

The system, which the report recommended drivers installing on a voluntary and not compulsory basis, would automatically slow a car down to within the limit for the individual road on which it is being driven.

Clarification: The market is settled based on legislation/laws created which state that cars in the UK must have speed control devices installed, the said timeframe of the implementation or it's retroactive details do not matter.

Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.

 
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Yes
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Suspend date: Thu 31st Dec 11:59pm PST (5 weeks to go)

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 30%

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Created Wed 31st Dec 2008 12:12am PST by hseal43
Suspended Wed 7th Jan 5:18pm PST by ryanj: Suspended pending addition of specific settlement details
Unsuspended Thu 8th Jan 7:41pm PST by ryanj: Did not receive a response from the question creator regarding how to clarify the market so I've done so myself

Suspend date: Thu 31st Dec 11:59pm PST (5 weeks to go) details

 

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Comments (9)

I'm just waiting for the day when a government official is sent to collect me on a bus, a nutritionist helps me select what food I eat, a budget director tells me what clothing I can afford and I am taken only to the stores that meet the criteria they've set forth for me.

Different thought here...it does makes me smile to think those fancy little high performance motors will mean nothing if this comes to fruition.
posted 45 weeks ago
Hmm, it's fairly easy to see a few cars getting one of these, but how many will it take to generate a story in the major mainstream news media? I have no clue.
posted 45 weeks ago
  3 curios
THERE is no lead story for this please supply.
posted 45 weeks ago
Here's a story that speaks to it being voluntary:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/31/carbon-emissions-transport
posted 45 weeks ago
hm, i found out the other night that my car has a governor chip that prohibits me from going more that 110 MPH. Once i hit 110 i start coasting until I'm down to about 105.... and was I mad to find out about that! I would never consider one of these.

how would it work anyways? Just floor it all the time and let the car decide how fast you go? what about those times when going faster will actually let you maneuver away from an accident or change lanes?
posted 45 weeks ago
I just read an article about this and it makes me GRATEFUL for the current state of American politics... you UK people are effed.
posted 45 weeks ago
This reminds me of an old news story that is worth repeating:

Higher Speed Limits, Lower Death Rates
Statistics surprise many observers of state's highways


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/02/MN65128.DTL

When California revved up speed limits nearly three years ago, critics predicted highway carnage as drivers sped past the new 65 mph signs -- and into trouble.

It didn't happen. Fewer people died in California auto wrecks last year than in any year in the past four decades, despite a doubled state population and triple the number of vehicles on the road.

A total of 3,671 people died, far below the peak of 5,503 in 1979 and 5,500 as recently as 1987. This year, the death toll is running nearly 300 lower than the same period last year, California Highway Patrol Commissioner D.O. Helmick said.

``I for one am not going to tell you that raising speed limits in California has created a major problem,'' he said. ``We have never seen this kind of reduction in my 30 years on the highway patrol.''
posted 45 weeks ago
  8 rdsgalvao
They're not going to do it because the government receives a lot of money from speed cameras. If the cars are forced to go within the speed limit via such a device, nobody would get speeding tickets. Which means less money for the government.
posted 17 weeks ago
wow. good points rds
posted 17 weeks ago

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