Europe Might Soon Require Vehicles to Have Automatic Speed Limiters
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In the past few years, Europe has taken consistent strides toward improving driver protection. Back in 2017, it announced a goal of having fully-autonomous vehicles on the road by 2021. Vehicle owners are gravitating toward cars with advanced safety tech. Earlier this month, many European countries signed an agreement that would require new vehicles to have automatic braking as standard.
2019 promises to introduce some additional safety improvements for drivers in Europe. The European Union is currently considering requiring vehicles to have automatic speed limiters. The goal is to help reduce driving-related fatalities. Per the European Transport Safety Council, the speed limiters will reduce traffic collisions by 30 percent, which will save approximately 25,000 lives within 15 years after implementation.
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The ESTC is pushing for the technology to include an off/on switch. The idea is for the system to automatically engine while the engine is on. It will also emit a visual and aural notification when the driver travels above the speed limit until the motorist adjusts the vehicle’s traveling speed accordingly. Though drivers could still accelerate hard enough to surpass the speed limiter’s settings, the technology should still help curb drivers’ tendencies to speed.
Even if the U.K. leaves the EU in the near future, the new speed limiter requirement should still apply to British motorists, per the Daily Express. If the EU passes the new policy, it could take effect sometime in the next three years.
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