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Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? (www.theguardian.com)

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Even with the caveats about limited data and untangling causation and correlation, the statistics are striking: the first year of a scheme in Wales where the speed limit on urban roads was lowered to 20mph resulted in about 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured.

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Pretty much any car that comes with even a very basic cruise control will have a speed limiter option. My car is from 2010 and has it. I think my 2004 Mégane I had beforehand may have had it too, IIRC.

Although it's a bit more fiddly than what you describe in that you have to turn off cruise control mode, switch to speed limiter, set the speed, then activate.

But yes, it would be an interesting feature to have a "town mode" button that you could set to 20 or 30mph in the car settings. Much more streamlined than the above. I imagine you could do other things, too like trying to keep revs to a minimum to keep the car quiet, (if a hybrid) going EV-preferred or EV-only, etc.

[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 days ago

A lot of cars I've been in with speed limiters, the minimum speed is 25mph. I've never understood why it's not 1mph (or more reasonably 5mph, which is the lowest limit I see regularly).

[–] vpol@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, exactly what I want. My Corolla has all the options, but enabling disabling limiter is not easy (takes at least 3 button presses) and it would be cool to have programmable single-touch limiter.