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I was recently in the Uk and one of the cars I was in would alert the driver if he was over the speed limit. Fair enough. But the alert itself is distracting. Are we to review every single alert from these cameras? Is that not just another distraction?

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if you watch European car enthusiast review videos, they nearly all start by showing what's required to disable all of the nannies.

Don't worry the next OTA will both restore the warning and change/remove the ability to disable it. It's the future!

There’s usually some kind of short cut action to disable that for the car. In a Mercedes you hold the volume down button in the steering wheel for 3 seconds and it “updates settings” which is basically disabling that annoying feature.

Recently rented BMW had the same, disable speed warnings by holding down "Options" button or something on the steering wheel. Annoyingly though, it didn't remember the selected driving profile after being turned off, but not sure if that's because I wasn't logged in to a BMW account, it was a rental, because the profile was the sport profile, or whatever, so had to tap around on an annoying touchscreen to select that every time I used the car.

It's a strict legal requirement for all cars

There’s a way to make a profile the default. I personally appreciate that it reverts back to it when turned off.

They’re almost always wrong too, so they just beep at you for going over 50 when you’re in a 90 zone

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