[blog] Stay alive and enjoy the ride: Imposing 20mph speed limits to protect lives – time for furious drivers to embrace reality - eviltoast
  • lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s easy, just require speed governors in cars.

    Where I live, they’re required in e scooters and e bikes, which are far less dangerous than cars

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      E-scooters and e-bikes don’t have speed limits that vary by street. In order to implement a governor capable of limiting a car to a 20 mph speed in certain areas while still allowing it to run at highway speeds in others, you’d need either a computer vision system to read the speed limit signs or a GPS paired with a perfectly complete and up-to-date speed limit geodatabase, and you’d need to give either such fallible computerized system control over the throttle (which could be a safety hazard in and of itself, for multiple reasons).

      The difference between a e-bike governor and a car governor that can be set to something lower than 70 mph is like this.

      • uis@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Then make nation-wide limit at 20 units of imperialism per hour

      • lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Just have a 20 mph limit in the city, and no speed limit outside the city. This would also require moving all the highways outside the city, but I think that would be an improvement.