• bitwaba@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      You don’t have to track a car to limit how fast it goes. Speed governerors exist inside gas powered cars already. All that has to be done is 1) legally require a manufacturer to limit speeds of their vehicles, and 2) prosecute them when they do not implement those restrictions. The rest is lawyers and lines of code (and lines of coke I guess)

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        2 years ago

        You need location data to be able to determine what limit to impose.

        And I bet you anything it will be a cloud based system.

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            2 years ago

            They don’t transmit the speed limit of the current road, and for things like construction they’ll need real-time updates.

            I’m certain they won’t want to push the entire database out to every vehicle for every update…

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              2 years ago

              They don’t need real time updates to accomplish their goals. The car just needs accurate days most of the time. Having the car download periodic updates to a database that covers the whole state is perfectly feasible and involves no tracking.

              You should be worried more about tracking through license plates and cameras.

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              2 years ago

              It would work everywhere except construction sites, where we can just have cops like we do everywhere right now.

              GPS is a great solution, it already tells you what the speed limits are depending on the software.