A new technology is available to keep cars from breaking the speed limit.
“Intelligent Speed Assist can prevent a car from exceeding the speed limit. Republicans in Virginia just passed a law to make it a punishment for repeated traffic violations—and other states may soon follow suit.”
I think this would actually be unsafe! Imagine if your passing someone on a two lane road. Quite often you will be temporarily be over the limit as you pass. You want to get the pass over quickly for obvious reasons. With the limiter it may make that maneuver very dangerous.
Terrible idea. There are legitimate reasons to speed, such as an emergency. Or if you need to escape a stalker. Or even pass someone (even a 10 mph overtake is usually too slow if you’re going across the dotted yellow line). ((Edit @glasspilot beat me to the punch here))
We need to work on transferring road ownership and management into private hands. It would be 10 times safer and far less frustrating.
I would not buy a car with that. For teenage drivers it might not be a bad idea for a while. I know I did really dumb things when I was 16. Stuff like 120 in 40. Lucky I never got caught and lived to tell the stories.
Good luck, or bad luck? 
It would open up a secondary market for programmers to bypass it.
Technically, it’s illegal to speed even when passing. But, yeah, emergencies make this a dumb idea.
Even city streets? Would there be toll booths at the exit to your neighborhood?
So were the people who you didn’t hit. I live on a “thru” street - it’s not terribly busy, but I can turn right out of my driveway and be in a different state in a couple of miles. but since it’s a "thru street (speed limit 30) it isn’t considered residential (except for the residents living along it). And I can hear the kids (and adults) that can easily hit 60 or 70 mph as they shoot past my house towards the cross street at the top of the hill. But there is another cross street just on the other side of that hill. Drivers turning from that street on to mine can only see the top of the hill one block away. And if a car or motorcycle crests that hill at 60, they will get hit.
One step at a time.
And no, no one does toll booths except dinosaur cities/states.
Scanning windshield stickers, HOA dues, etc. And this would have to be offset by a significant decrease in taxes.
It’s a long way off, but government has always been shitty at managing roads and always will be.
So what is a fair price to pay for a trip to the grocery store or church? And how would they prriotitize snow removal in northern climates…or do we have bidding wars for that?
I agree.
The speeding driver could get himself trapped in a situational where he’s trying to pass and suddenly doesn’t have enough speed to effectively and safely make the pass because of the limitation on the speed.
They’re other alternatives, one of which is the one used by the delivery services. they have dash cams in the vehicles and they review the desk cam footages randomly. Every dash cam video is reviewed because that would be cost prohibitive but the driver has no way of knowing when is those cam video will be reviewed. A
There are also other ways to monitor the speeds on the vehicles. If you use a phone app or a plug in application that monitors the perp will allege that somebody else who’s driving and he would merely a passenger.
Stupid questions, as that would all be sorted out over time through numerous transactions.
Private enterprise doesn’t work by fiat. Nobody decides what a “fair” price is. That’s what dictators do.
For what it’s worth, the controlled speeding may be eventually up to insurance companies As much as to the government. There are several insurance companies that have apps that either measure the speed of the vehicle or the speed at which the driver is moving and in the given time and the records are continuously kept by the insurance company and the events have an impact on the drivers dash owners underwriting a file.
Speaking can cost you money.
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