Some alarming news has come out of Europe that is likely to effect motoring world-wide.
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CarsGuide report: "All new cars in the European Union will be fitted with speed-limiting devices within three years, after a group of key European government officials voted in favour of making a large number of safety measures mandatory on new cars by 2022."
The one system on the approved list that will change driving forever, and the one opposed by both car companies and enthusiasts, is Intelligent Speed Assistance.
ISA works by using traffic-sign-recognition cameras, or GPS data, to determine the maximum speed where you are driving, and then automatically restrict engine power and your speed to the prevailing limit."
In response Volvo has said it will limit the top speed on all its new cars to 180k/ph starting in 2020, which is the same year the Swedish automaker wants there to be zero people killed or seriously injured in any of its new models.
The change will be implemented globally starting in the second quarter of next year on vehicles planned for the 2021 model year.
Will these laws spread to Australia.
The answer is, it probably doesn't matter as cars of the future will be designed to be speed limited.
It's unlikely manufacturers will rejig computer systems and disable technology just for Australia.
We can only hope that they will.
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