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All new cars sold in the UK and Europe are to be fitted with devices to automatically stop drivers from exceeding the speed limit under sweeping changes to vehicle safety rules provisionally agreed by the EU.

Although Britain may no longer be part of the EU when the rules come into effect, the UK regulator, the Vehicle Certification Agency, has said it will mirror safety standards for vehicles in the UK.

The speed limiter is one of a range of safety features to be made mandatory from 2022, along with automated emergency braking, electronic data recorders and improved visibility built into lorries for drivers to see vulnerable cyclists and pedestrians around the vehicle.

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The package of measures needs to be ratified by the European parliament, which is likely by September.

The speed limiter device, called intelligent speed assistance, or ISA, uses GPS data and sign recognition cameras to detect speed limits where the car is travelling, and then will sound a warning and automatically slow down the vehicle if it is exceeding the limit.

However, drivers will be able to override the device simply by pushing hard on the accelerator, reassuring some motoring groups that have argued that in certain situations – such as when trying to swiftly overtake a vehicle in front – speeding up could be safer.

OsloBlue wrote:

You will now get people flooring it at red lights when they turn green.

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OsloBlue wrote:

That’s correct gill, you can get GPS guided bombs, cruise missiles and artillery shells.

Back in the Balkan wars they would hit stuff just by giving a 6 figure grid and nine line (nine line takes about 3 minutes to brief, repeat and confirm) and the bomb would usually hit within the grid square. But would most likely have to be guided to target by a laser etc.

These days you can go round with a £100 forested 101, grab some 24 figure grids for pre laid fire positions and have ordinance on target in 30 seconds.

Even more scary is the fact that mobile phones have to emit GPS signals to stay in sync with satellites. So you could effectively say to the ordnance, “this phone is emitting GPS coordinates, use them for targeting.” You could effectively paint yourself as a target, which is what happened to many jihadis recently.

Recently the US managed to prove that the Donetsk and Luhansk rebels were supported by Russian federal ground forces because they followed social media profiles of serving Russian soldiers and tracked the ping signal from their phones to coordinates located within these republics...

Technically they could prove your location at the site of crimes if you took your phone with you...

Fascinating yet terrifying stuff really.