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I certainly wont be volunteering to have one fitted.
This is yet another example of the Governments misguided obsession with limiting speed as their main weapon in the fight to make the roads safer. It's only through educating all road users that an improvement will be seen.
A few weeks ago I was driving on a lightly trafficked residential road, 30 mph limit. Ahead of me was a car signaling to turn right into a junction ahead. The approach had a hatched off area to protect right turning vehicles. As the car ahead filtered into the right turn lane I filtered past on the left. There was a car in the road to the right waiting to emerge right. As I drew parallel to the car in front that was turning right, the car waiting to emerge pulled out very quickly, I can only assume that the driver in front who was turning right had flashed him out. Braking was not an option (I was too close), the emerging driver would have hit the front O S. of my car. I opted to accelerate out of trouble. If my car had been limited, I would not have been able to avoid a collision. After accelerating out of trouble I then had to brake because I was now traveling at about 40mph and there was a speed camera ahead.
This incident has confirmed what I have always believed, that the driver must have ultimate control of the vehicle, not a device that limits the drivers ability to act appropriately.
Nigel ADI
IAM trainee observer
This is yet another example of the Governments misguided obsession with limiting speed as their main weapon in the fight to make the roads safer. It's only through educating all road users that an improvement will be seen.
A few weeks ago I was driving on a lightly trafficked residential road, 30 mph limit. Ahead of me was a car signaling to turn right into a junction ahead. The approach had a hatched off area to protect right turning vehicles. As the car ahead filtered into the right turn lane I filtered past on the left. There was a car in the road to the right waiting to emerge right. As I drew parallel to the car in front that was turning right, the car waiting to emerge pulled out very quickly, I can only assume that the driver in front who was turning right had flashed him out. Braking was not an option (I was too close), the emerging driver would have hit the front O S. of my car. I opted to accelerate out of trouble. If my car had been limited, I would not have been able to avoid a collision. After accelerating out of trouble I then had to brake because I was now traveling at about 40mph and there was a speed camera ahead.
This incident has confirmed what I have always believed, that the driver must have ultimate control of the vehicle, not a device that limits the drivers ability to act appropriately.
Nigel ADI
IAM trainee observer