And just to add insult to injury, the IAM have come out in full support of this on Facebook...
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- Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:26 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 98061
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:22 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 98061
Re: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
angus wrote:Surely with Brexit, it won't apply here?
Apparently...
Models sold in the UK are likely to have the same technology after the Vehicle Certification Agency said it would mirror EU rules post-Brexit
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:22 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 98061
Re: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
GTR1400MAN wrote:So everyone will be driving like a lorry driver all the time ... on the limiter. Very safe!
Except for all the people in older cars without the limiters on...
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:52 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 98061
Re: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
It'll be interesting to see what happens to the new car market around that time. How many performance car enthusiasts are going to look for a quality used motor rather than a new one with a compulsory limiter?
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 8:40 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 98061
Re: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
And how many crashes will be attributed to ‘I put my foot down but the car wouldn’t go and I couldn’t avoid the oncoming vehicle’?
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 8:39 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 98061
Re: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
Imagine how much money the govt will lose in speed camera fines if all cars have speed limiters on...
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 8:39 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
- Replies: 63
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Speed limiters mandatory from 2022?
Going to be a lot of people keeping their older cars I reckon...
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- Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:29 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello all
- Replies: 44
- Views: 82775
Re: Hello all
AndyP wrote:Ahh thanks.
Went by last week, shut where it joins the A46.
Testing tomorrow so I will look.
Ah, must admit I didn't go up to the A46, but the part pre-Pucklechurch was (finally) clear..
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:17 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello all
- Replies: 44
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Re: Hello all
AndyP wrote:During the latest long round of road repairs/closures, part of my devious cross country route are lost
Thankfully open again now though, I was out that way a while back
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 12:57 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello all
- Replies: 44
- Views: 82775
Re: Hello all
Hi Stu, welcome aboard! Sorry to hear that your introduction to the world of advanced driving has been quite what you'd expected, but please don't give up, there's always more to learn, and you might just find that when things begin to 'click' you'll start to enjoy your driving a lot more. That was ...