Unless you tie them to the local speed limit, what good would it do? You'd limited to the national speed limit in the school zone though, so they'd have that going for them.

FTA, it's all a bunch of mumbo jumbo to justify installing big brother black boxes in the vehicles. Typical after the fact law enforcement activity rather than a true safety first, prevent the accident approach.

Yeah, fark that. Sometimes speeding up to avoid a bad situation is the best course of action.

"Today, vehicles are safer than ever, developed to meet a range of driving conditions and driver styles."

True, though statistics have shown that people tend to drive more recklessly and faster because they know if they wreck, they'll probably walk away with only a few bruises.

In the 'OLD DAYS' pre-airbags, a car might survive a wreck and be able to be driven away, but the driver tended to be reduced to stew meat inside.

Actually, I've kind of been waiting for something like this to happen.

I owned a 1967 Pontiac GTO, rigged to run and spent most of my time with my foot in the carburetor, frequently replacing back tires and seeing how fast I could get to the end of a 5 mile, straight, little used paved road.

As a courier I had no choice but to speed. The Company demanded unrealistic service times and I spent about a decade just flying through three cities. I got into 8 wrecks. Only one was actually my fault.

I saw the arrival of radar and laser speed guns, the increase in the cost of speeding tickets, the decreasing and then the increasing of speed limits. Red light cameras and speed traps.

Through it all I watched American car makers design and offer mainly cars which had enormous power and started approaching the speed of race cars. Then the foreign car makers created cars which apparently can go FASTER than most cars in the Indie 500.

I also watched as morons started strapping jet engines on everything from motorcycles to Mac trucks.

I was around when the police had to order one or two specially designed cop cars to catch up to the customized racers and their normal cars soon had to be designed to go even faster to catch family cars.

So with everyone screaming about speeders, car companies just kept on churning out supercharged speed demons, states designed highways to keep them from flying off the road and TV featured massively powered vehicles as a must-have item.

You know, at one time anyone could go and buy a box of TNT no questions asked. With predictable results. Now, you need to be licensed and have a damn good reason for buying the stuff.

I suspect this might just be the beginning of something most folks aren't going to like.

This would make sense if the majority of accidents were high speed wrecks. Given that the majority of wrecks are slow speed accidents, this really doesn't make any sense.

My worse wreck, it was on the freeway, the posted speed limit was 65. I was at a stand still because the freeway was closed for road work, and the woman who came up next rear ended me at 50 mph. This plan would in no way prevent that accident from happening. The woman paying attention would have prevented that wreck.

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There may not be a revenue drop.

Scotland turned a large fraction of its traffic police into cameras before 2010. Since 2010(+/-) speed camera fines go to the national government. If that isn't one of the England-and-Wales-only laws Scotland isn't making much money from speed enforcement.

Because Jeremy Clarkson doesn't slag on Scotland enough already.