We have many of those things in Australia (low speed limits and huge fines for doing 3kmh over the limit, automatically sent through mail), but we're seeing this:
Most of our safety improvements have come from better car designs like crumple zones, ABS, air bags.
The more you go against natural human behaviours and start treating humans like machines with very low tolerances, the more it makes sense to just have machines do the job
For the past decade you can find a lot of Renault with a speed limiter. Nobody mentioned it here because they probably don't know of it but it's really cool.
Like cruise control you set it up, for instance to a maximum speed of 50km/h. Then your car won't go over the speed, unless you decide to override it.
I find the design decision they made to let you override the limit very clever : if you press more aggressively on the accelerator pedal, you reach a second max level, which disables the speed limiter.
So you feel like originally you already were on full throttle but you have an option to go even more full throttle.
Driving in the city, you don't have to look at your speedometer and can focus on the road more
>The more you go against natural human behaviours and start treating humans like machines with very low tolerances, the more it makes sense to just have machines do the job...
Isn't the autonomous software systems used in these cars a lot less like a machine and more like a piss poor excuse of a human being? I mean, it is not a machine like the printing press, or a factory assembly line made of robots.
I mean, these systems are "fuzzy" enough to stop them being considered as a machine in the usual sense of the word. So letting the "machine do the job" might not be as good an idea as using a washing machine.
Australia doesn't have low speed or huge fines. Many places like the city of Sydney doesn't even have red light or speed cameras in the city, it is a joke.
Australia does not take traffic crashes seriously at all.
Sydney absolutely has red light cameras in the city.
But to be fair given the level of congestion and quality of the roads I doubt the point of speed cameras at all within the CBD. It's purely revenue raising.
And strongly disagree that Australia doesn't take crashes seriously. We are one of the most regulated societies in the world.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-26/speed-enforcement-detr...
Most of our safety improvements have come from better car designs like crumple zones, ABS, air bags.
The more you go against natural human behaviours and start treating humans like machines with very low tolerances, the more it makes sense to just have machines do the job