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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 →

Anti-car extremists driving Big Brother to watch Britain's roads? Domenick Yoney

The Association of British Drivers (ABD) has itself in a total tizzy over a proposal to limit speeds on rural single carriageways to 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph). If that wasn't enough blasphemy ...

Do you want to save gas? Stick to the speed limit! Xavier Navarro

Keeping your car moving under the speed limit is one of the tips that commonly appears when people talk about saving fuel. It's probably one of the tips most people respect the least, though, which ...

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 ...

RACC believes that limiting speed does not reduce pollution Xavier Navarro

As we announced here, the new speed limits around the city of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) to reduce pollution are coming into effect very soon. The new limits will be instated before the end of fall ...

Reducing speed to reduce pollution 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Catalan ministry of Environment Protection (Spain) has passed a bill that will reduce the maximum speed for cars in the Barcelona metropolitan area from 120 to 80 km/h (75 to 50 mph). The bill also sets for a recommendation of a maximum speed of 90 km/h (55 mph) in the so-called "second crown" ...

NEVs may get more speed in Washington State 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the photo for a high res gallery from the AEV factory tour Here are AutoblogGreen, we've done several reports on various neighborhood electric vehicles such as the various models from GEM and a factory visit to American Electric Vehicle that included a drive in their Kurrent. These NEVs ...


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