The car that could spell the end for speeding tickets
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2015
- The all-new Ford S-MAX introduces for the first time new Intelligent Speed Limiter technology that scans traffic signs and adjusts the throttle to help drivers stay within legal speed limits and avoid fines. More info here: ford.to/1G4WREN
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Introducing the new Ford Nanny.
I agree, take a look at another way to go. A $50 cruise control which knows the speed limits using wikispeedia.org data.
www.wikispeedia.org/wordpress/nirvana-cruise-control/
Let's say you can pause time, like you do with a video. You pause it right before a car crash. You have two choices: (1) allow yourself to die, and (2) turn back time and have all cars be "nanny cars". Be honest!... And be aware many die on the roads as we speak. If they choose #2, meaning you must too drive a "nanny car", would you accept or let them die?
Personally, I don't care about your pleasure of driving. I care about another's right to live. And I understand if you don't care about what I think, as long as you have a solid argument for that besides "I do what I want" -- which is true, go ahead and do what you want, but on the road you don't risk it just for yourself.
@@-30h-work-week haha i dont care. I get my adrealine rush from speed, i just wont drive 120 kmh if its a wide open highway, in perfect conditions and in a mood for speeding. I predict many others will also hate this new feature, and car makers will try to reverse it at all costs. Its not just the end speed, i have heard it makes cars sluggish accelerating too, who wants to buy a sluggish car? Most cars are already sluggish, and they want to make them more sluggish? It will hurt the new car sales if anything. And EU needs tax money from new car sales.. go figure.
@@-30h-work-week i can drive 200+ when its safe on the highway, but i drive at most like 10 above kmh in the city, its called common sense.
@@-30h-work-week what is the point of surviving if you never lived in the first place?
"safety cameras"
Kill me now. I no longer look forward to the future.
As someone who has the 'roadside' sign reader in my current 13 plate Focus, I can tell you that it is not even close to accurate in the UK. It consistently reads the speed limiter signs on the back of lorries and conveys that as the road speed limit. That can be 'fun' when you are behind a continental lorry with a 100 Kph sign when you are in a 30 Mph area. It will show me 100 on the dashboard (when there are no such thing in the UK). European trucks use the same white circle, red band as UK roadside signs. It also gets confused where the lorry has two speed limit signs on the back of the wagon.
Love the idea! Ford always thinking ahead and going further!
'Safety Cameras' LOL more like revenue generating cameras a standard feature of the modern Orwellian Police State.
This will become mandatory in the future, without the ability to opt out.
This is very dangerous, like, literally dangerous. Everyone who drives knows it's not just the speed limit you need to worry about. But also the traffic speed. If the speed limit is 65 and everyone is driving 80, it's only a matter of time before this slows someone down and they get smashed by someone.
@captain pugwash Couldn't agree more, i use my limiter all the time as well and if there's ever a need for a quick burst (overtaking) i just put my foot right down. The system has never felt dangerous and i love the fact my merc will slowly brake if i lower the limit.
captain pugwash If they put them in every vehicle then they should raise speed limits significantly (to almost triple what they currently are).
I will never buy a Ford with this feature on it
TheNinjaPicker I would never buy ANY vehicle with it.
Judah Richardson Good point, I have a F-150 in the drive and love it.
TheNinjaPicker I'm sure the feature can be turned off. I would like if my vehicle can read traffic signs but only to give me a bit of warning, nothing more.
Guys three years and all new cars will have it
Agreed, but if it wants to beep at me for driving 210 kmh, its ok.
I can't wait to hear how the guys on Top Gear are going to greet this news.
Stopping acceleration instead of braking? It might not slow you enough.
If cops can't get you for speeding anymore, you think they won't make up that lost revenue in other (shady) ways? They have quotas to meet.
so basically its a system to stop you speeding which can be overridden by putting the foot down? ummm ok then speeding it is
Wow, great for people who can't read signs or work out how to lift the foot off the accelerator early to allow the vehicle to slow naturally 👍
well i'm not buying this car! how dare a computer change what I want to do! as it is, some speeds in the UK are just stupid! and the breaking times are becoming quicker and quicker anyways, so why do we need to slow down?
Why are these guys using a left-hand drive car with a speedometer in kilometers in the UK?
the limitbshould be settable like in a tempomat. but still influenced by the recognition system.
thats why i love my Escort RST, do not have any of these nanny computers to spoil my fun...
This is just a first baby step in what will be a long process of taking control away from drivers and giving it to onboard computers. The final stage will be the mandatory use of self-driving cars. Drivers will hate it, but I'm convinced this process will be pushed along by the insurance companies. They will initially charge higher rates to drivers who don't have or refuse to use these new features, and will eventually refuse to insure them at all. That would make them unable to legally drive until they comply.
A better feature would be to have a device that projects your speed externally and/or records and saves your speed. This way you (not just the cops) also have data when you get pulled over.
Screw Ford. I traded mine in for a MOPAR and never looked back. Remember back when Ford had balls?
Wow so its just cruise control with sign recognition
What’s the point offering engine choices with this feature! Could also spell the end of many car manufacturers as well.
Unless it is a forced speed limit then it is not good enough. Safety is the most important feature of a vehicle.
What is a greater danger is a lack of distance between vehicles. Look at motorway pile ups and it happens at slower speeds in and around towns. The most frequent collisions are first of all in urban areas where speed is generally restricted to 30 mph and in residential areas and some main roads to 20 mph.The most common are a rear ender followed in second place by a smidsy at road junctions roundabouts etc. In both scenarios the vast majority of collisions occur at speeds lower than the shown speed limit. So a speed limiter would be of little or no value under the most frequent of circumstances.
Further whats the point of having the capacity to switch the dam thing off and then totally desregard the speed limit anyway. Having the ability to switch it off makes a mockery of having one fitted in the first place.
What a waste of time effort and monies.
i know that they are developing distance assist but once again they can be turned off. Plus if one is fitted and if it works correctly [ some dont and will still end up with a slight collision] then a driver will be automatically driving closer to the car in front. There would be little or no lapse time between the vehicle in front braking or emergency braking or coming to an imediate stop without the showing of brake lights and then the following vehicle is also braking thus no thinking time would be required. This means that a following on vehicle will no longer stay at what was known as the safe stopping distance behind any vehicle and the vehicle in front would be tailgated by many others and that would be a concern for many drivers. If that is so and a driver turns off the assist then in practice he may still drive closer to the vehicle in front a distance that only the assist would have given, not being the thinking distance plus the braking distance, known as the SAFE FOLLOWING ON DISTANCE and in those circumstances a collision is more than likely if the vehicle in front had to stop suddenly and unexpectedly.
Whats the point in having any of these safety devices if they are capable of being turned off.
Brilliant
The Michael Hastings Ford.
Fantastica!!! Maravilhosa Ford.
I got titanium x 65 plate, how do you know you got speed limiter for speed cameras, to come on dash board. Can some show me how to use it thanks lee, only had car 3months
When my ford focus 1.6 (1999) die, i wont buy a ford with this feature lol
How about just a roof mounted mini gun that automatically shoots out the tires of anyone speeding ahead of you.
This idea is against the interests of all governments of the world. Do you want the gov to collect no fines for speeding? So, no gov would impose a law on passenger cars to be speed limited electronically.
lol some people will cross out the zeros in 100 kmh so the car will only go 1.
Surely this encourages drivers to take less notice of speed limits and trains them to have less responsibility on the roads?
This won't end speeding tickets. People are just going to buy more interesting cars that don't have this feature.
I had this idea in 1996. Just saying. Less technology involved, much safer and more efficient.
All the guys who criticize it, just try to drive in Europe , where the government income and cops sneaky tactics are almost averywhere.
This is why Im happy I didn't grow up in this decade
"safety cameras" nice euphemism
And how good is your image recognition? What if the sign gets mud or its raining? What if it reads 10 instead of 70 and you get rear-ended and your passenger dies? Or reads 70 instead of 10 and kill someone in the car in front of you? What if it reads the highway number instead of speed limit? Can I assume the next step is to send a message to the government so they can just mail me a ticket for going 1 over?
Yeah, congrats Ford, unless you rip out this **** I will never buy a vehicle from you again.
I would never buy anything with this feature. Dislike.
Ugh, and the thought that the feature becomes a DOT standard like DRL.
No thx buddy
My name is jeff :-$
Sorry... Not for me
Never buying this car. EVER
This is a horrible idea. Sometimes you need to exceed the speed limit temporarily to avoid an accident. Also, when all of the other cars are going 10+ miles over the speed limit on the freeway, these cars are going to be a road hazard.
Because Ford now is all about going slow....
If made compulsory then this would breach our liberty and probably our human rights. Nice idea though for the right for yobs lol
The new Ford "Adolf"
Ve Vill Kontrol Yur Kar und zu vil like it
Don't buy a fascist FORD
Easily disabled I bet
What a nonsense.
This is why the cost of a new vehicle is astronomical pushing automobile ownership, like housing, out of the average consumer's price range.
What a waste of time. Yet more unneccessary tech pushing the price of cars up. Better off having mandatory retests every 5 years and harsher penalties for infractions. Oh, and the rest of your car lineup is trash.
Gay
They're taking our freedom and nobody's fighting back. Since when has safety become more important than individual freedom? It's MY responsibility to drive at a safe speed, not these guys. I'm not saying I want to speed like crazy but I won't let anyone live my life for me. I want to make my own choices, thank you very much
Mental note: Never buy a Ford.