I’ve seen several cars trying to auto detect speed signs, and at times miserably failing, sometimes spectacularly (20km limit detected on the acceleration way for a major motorway with a limit of 80). If this were to be enforced, it would actually be dangerous

This is dumb.

I have a 2021 SEAT Leon, my dad has a 2016 Volvo V90.

Both of our cars have cameras for lane keeping and reminding us of the speed limit.

Neither works 100%

My car recognize the "end of no overtaking" sign as being a speed limit sign for 90km/h

Then there is an area where it allways detects a change in the speed limit despite there being none, it is from 60 to 50, not a huge deal, but there is nothing stopping it from going from 120 to 30 instantly.

Then there are time when you might need to speed for safety.

I have been in that situation, example:

Me and my dad was driving on the back roads between Uppsala and Stockholm at night, dad was driving, there was an oncomming car when suddenly dad accellerated hard, swerved into the oncomming lane and back again.

There had been a moose that decided to cross the road just as two cars passed eachother, we would not have had time to stop, the only thing to do was to speed and swerve.

The moose incident may be an edge case, but the road sign detection issues are not and the EU should wait untill the system is reliable before forcing it out.

This will affect me in about 20 years

I like the idea but I'm skeptical. Not sure how it'll work, but any GPS app I use regularly messes up the speed limit, be it due to construction (or sudden lack of) or just 2 roads being too close and me being on the other one.

And when reading signs with cameras, there are some speed limit signs with additional information underneath specifying a time or anything really.

And then finally all the times when the signs are barely readable or even just wrong. I legit can't count how many times I've seen a speed limit sign 10 meters before a series of junctions with an end of speed limit at the end of this ordeal, like that's not how this works, what the hell?

Edit: Just remembered the extremely silly cases of speedlimits. Once saw a 10km/h limit in a parking house when going up hill to the seconds floor. Just for shits and giggles I tried it, I almost went backwards trying to fight gravity, so glad no-one was there at the time, also just took forever.

Good news. Now, if they mandated a sensor that senses whether car is parked illegally, blocking footpath or a cycle lane, and drive itself to an impound lot, it's be even better. But it's progress and a significant one.

As someone who has to drive vehicles for work that have a similar system thats GPS based, I dont hate this shit as much as you would think.

I dont come to work to lose money because I get fined for speeding. I think "Oh shut up you fucking nanny piece of shit..." but I still slow down.

Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, it must be installed but can be disabled. The choice is left to the driver.

If this would also mean I can drive at the max allowed speed and can't get fines I would actually like this. I don't really feel the need for speed anyway, the maximum allowed speed usually is fine for me. But some countries like France switch a lot between 130 and 110, so most of my speeding tickets are because I didn't see the 110 sign immediately and there is a speed camera.

If this solution let's you go a max speed with zero tickets I would use it.

No car that is sold to consumers need to go 120 mph... There's no reason for it. Yet sports cars that go 200 are sold to anyone with a check.

It's crazy

The article says they expect a 30% reduction in collisions. I very much doubt that

My father in law has that feature in his car. I think he doesn't even register the beeping anymore. And it's so easy to disable. No idea why he "uses" and ignores it.