So many times the cars with these smart assistants either:
- get triggered by a wrong sign; for example off-ramp having different speed limit than main road and the car picking up the sign on the off-ramp
- don’t see an actual sign, especially in the tight bends
- have no clue that a speed limit is enforced at specific times only
- the biggest danger: poor visibility, especially in heavy rain
I very much like having a reference speed limit in front of me, especially on a HUD. I also very much like a speed limiter. But a car not obeying inputs of the driver, that’s a bit too far. I’m the driver, I can see what the speed limit is, the car thinks it knows but in many cases, it’s plain wrong. Automatic braking will be very dangerous.
I wonder how many tesla-style accidents we’re going to witness caused by those automatically slowing down systems.
Frankly, I very much look forward to when a speed limit of 120kph gets introduced in Germany and the day after it’s introduced it will be „dangerous to speed” while people were driving much faster for decades…