I don’t mind, actually.
If i had the choice between A: being able to speed myself whenever i feel like it, or B: being able to punish the douchebags in their S3 etc blasting past me at 90mph (in a 50), i’ll always take the latter choice. I stick to the speed limits. And this here:
With the way speed limits signs are posted these days, many of which are hidden in over grown hedges or hidden by trees or don’t do this or don’t do that road signs it very easy to accidentality go over the limit, be it for a short time but if its only a few seconds and computer says you done it then you are guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. How often does your satnav give incorrect speed limits?
First, apples and oranges. Automated bus lane enforcement is based on cameras. It’s the same thing as speeding cameras and has nothing to do with GPS recognition.
Second, do you actually believe that every car on the road suddenly starts uploading their trips to “the cloud” to be reviewed by some guy checking for speeding infractions?
This obviously isn’t going to happen. What could happen is that new cars get GPS “controlled” speed limit indicators, much like you get with current older style sat navs (the ones that can be outdated/wrong). In which case you don’t have an excuse to go over the speed limit. If you watch a few ID3 POV videos, you see what that looks like (though in the ID3 it’s camera recognised iirc). You get a warning in the dashboard that you’re speeding.
Keep in mind, the car needs to actually know that it’s speeding for an “automated upload system”. So it needs to have the accurate speed limit for whatever position it is in. This isn’t a “government black box” disconnected from your car, this goes through the cars electronics, meaning you will see the same speed limit indicated on the dashboard/instruments.
On top, you can already get fined for going 31 in a 30. There’s no legal requirement for the usual 10% +2mph “curtesy” we get. Vice versa, there’s no reason to assume that 1mph is already going to trigger a fine. My uneducated guess would be, that IF this becomes a thing, you get warned once you go over the speed limit by 1-3mph, and if you stay there prolonged or keep on going to 5mph over the speed limit, you get fined.
Which is entirely fine by me, to be honest. Small price to pay to basically get rid of the teen douchebags blasting past me at 80mph in a 50 zone in their A3s and Focus STs.
See the upside: insurance premiums are likely to come down. Helps everyone, especially younger drivers.