Further details taken from another forum;
I’ve read lots of posts here and seen various scare stories in the press about “speed limiters” being mandatory after 2022. As this is the area I work in I thought it needed some clarification.
Background: I’m sure everyone is familiar with the Euro NCAP crash safety ratings which award up to 5 stars dependent on how a vehicle behaves in various crash scenarios. Car structural design supplemented with advanced restraint systems had got to the point where practically ever European designed car got 5 stars for crashworthiness and occupant safety, which means it became difficult to differentiate based on the number of stars a car received – and people were still killing themselves in avoidable accidents.
This caused NCAP to start looking beyond occupant safety to encompass two more areas … vulnerable road users and safety assist.
The speed limiters come under safety assist, which consists of electronic stability control, seatbelt reminders, lane support, autonomous emergency braking which either warns or intervenes to prevent rear-end shunts and speed assistance, which is where the speed limiters live.
As the Euro NCAP stars system now includes more and more electronic systems that aid passive safety, this is "encouraging" auto manufacturers to fit these systems as standard to improve their NCAP ratings.
Is EuroNCAP part of the EU ... not exactly ...
The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) is a European car safety performance assessment programme (i.e. a New Car Assessment Program) based in Brussels (Belgium) and
founded in 1997 by the Transport Research Laboratory for the UK Department for Transport and backed by several European governments, as well as by the European Union.[1] Their slogan is "For Safer Cars".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_NCAP
So why have the tabloids been up in arms about the EU forcing speed limiters on drivers in 2022? …. Either deliberate deceit or a lack of understanding of what intelligent speed assistance actually is. I’ll be charitable go with lack of understanding.
Intelligent speed assistance is already fitted in vast numbers of cars, it is part of modern automated cruise control systems which use maps and cameras to determine the speed limit for the cars location. The speed limit is then displayed to the driver and in higher end systems, the driver can set the cruise control to the current speed limit with a button press as confirmation.
On low end cars it is a LIM button on the steering wheel which sets the current speed as a limit in the car. The car will then resist exceeding this limit (dead accelerator travel) but it can be easily overridden by pressing the accelerator pedal further or switching the system off.
This is what is coming in 2022.
I use these systems all the time travelling backwards and forwards to my boat and they have saved me no end of money in avoided speeding fines. I can also still travel on unrestricted autobahns at 255 km/h when I want to, and I could do 255 km/h through the centre of town if I decided to be a complete psychopathic knob.
I hope this goes some way towards clearing up this storm in a teacup. It may be that in another 10 years governments decide to put hard speed limiters in private cars, but there would undoubtedly be a public outcry.
Here are all the references for anyone who wants to fact check or learn any more about vehicle safety technology, NCAP ratings etc.
Actual statement from the EU as to what is proposed for 2022:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-1793_en.htm
What goes on before these things actualy get proposed:
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/...tive/safety_en
A summary of what systems exist:
https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/34588
Details on Intelligent speed adaption:
https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_...ptation_isa_en
Q&A on myths surrounding ISA
http://archive.etsc.eu/documents/ISA Myths.pdf
Euro NCAPdata can be found here ….
https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-...safety-assist/
Read more at
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthrea...ry-speed-limiters-in-2022#4YRoWHXJHZJZTqSX.99