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But as the OP points out, a car is able to much faster than the law would allow. I am no lawyer, but I suspect that there have been cases in the past where someone has sued and won because a product was grossly overly-capable for the task it is advertised to do and for what it is intended to be used for. |
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04-26-2011, 07:07 AM | #47 |
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A Prius will go 90mph - I see them doing it all the time. It seems to me a lot of guys' wives buy these and then they have major inferiority complexes when driving. That and some women are just maniacs too. Great way to completely negate the benefits of the hybrid drive.
Probably some of those funkly little electric cars from really small manufacturers can't go 80mph. Even the Nissan Leaf can barely crack 100mph IIRC. |
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#2 New tracks are constantly being built, and people constantly hold autocross and special events on private property where you are supposed to exceed the speed limit substantilly. If manufacuters added a GPS based speed limit governor it wouldn't future proof the car or allow it to work in special events. #3 Speeds that are greater than 80 mph, say 100 mph may be nessesary in emergency situations, if you set the speed governor to an unreasonably low limit that would case problems. #4 Despite speed limits it's generally accepted that everyone goes faster than the limit on the interstate and cops wholeheartedly approve of it and never pull anyone over unless they're going riduclously fast, which makes it a gray area depending on how strict your state enforces the law. Some states espetially with wide open spaces tend to have very lax laws. #5 Some states don't have maximum speed limits so it makes no sense to limit them if the upper limit is anything that's safe and this is a free country where we can travel from state to state. The vast majority of cars that are caught for substantially exceeding the speed limit are not fast cars, but slow ones like honda civics. Cops will back this up. While once in a while you'll get a street racer generally the worst speeders are regular people in boring cars. What we can conclude from this is that fast cars aren't responsible for speeding irresponsible people are so it doesn't matter if we make fast cars or not. I'm a race trained driver, and I'm used to going 0-100 in 4 seconds and pulling 4g in the corners so anything on the street is as slow as a semi truck to me. The reason I own fast cars is so that I don't have anemic acceleration. I haven't gotten a speeding ticket in 6 years. Not one. My weekend car has 800 hp and can reach just under 230 mph though.
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Even if manufacturerers made a special edition of the vehicles they make for the U.S...ones that can't, as you say, easily exceed the speed limit...don't you think people would own ones that can illegally? Or modify their car (ala making a semi-auto gun and auto) so they can?
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Using that logic we wouldn't have any laws because some will always break them. The gps coding would address the various speed limits both in the USA and abroad. |
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Much issues with that plan...see George Orwell. Besides the obvious privacy issues, who gets ticketed the car or the driver? All for curbing traffic violations, but limiting or monitoring personal freedom as a short cut to law enforcement is a slippery slope.
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You can die just as easily going 55mph as you can at 80mph.
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I was referring to programing the various maximum speeds that the car could attain based on it's location.
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