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London begins testing GPS-enabled speed limiters

Transport for London has just begun testing a new technology that will artificially limit the top speeds of taxis, buses and government fleet vehicles. Called Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA), the system will keep track of speed limits all over London and will prevent operators from accelerating past that legal limit. The device is capable of slowing the vehicle down regardless of the driver's wishes. Alternatively, the system can be switched into an advisory mode that simply informs the driver when the speed limit has been reached. If these ... Read more →

Catalonia officials lowering speed limits drastically to reduce pollution Xavier Navarro

The transit authorities in Catalonia, Spain have decided to take the drastic speed limit on the accesses to the city of Barcelona to the next level. Similar to plans in other cities, like Rotterdam in ...

Portsmouth is first "20mph city" in Britain Jeremy Korzeniewski

Recently, we reported on so-called eco-towns in the U.K. which have imposed 15 mile per hour speed limits in an effort to reduce pollution. We're pretty sure that their end-goal is to remove vehicles ...

Eco-towns in the U.K. post 15 mph speed limits Jeremy Korzeniewski

There are plans in the works in the U.K. to create a new type of housing settlement called eco-towns. There are expected to be five eco-towns built by 2016, scaling up to 10 by 2020 with populations ...

Friday Humor: Lowering the speed limit to three miles per hour? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Yeah, the idea of lowering speed limits has been brought up before, with the intent on lowering the emissions and fuel usage by forcing people to drive slower. This would work, of course. The slower ...


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