Interesting idea. I think most people will hate it and there are many technological reasons for it to be problematic.
Can it be abused too? Say I have an old car without that limit, harass or attack someone then speed up by only going 15 over the limit? What about emergencies? What about motorbikes in that law?
A ton of unintended consequences to consider.
However, I don’t think any car needs to be able to go over certain speeds, and that could be a place to start. Would the limit be 90, 100mph?
Maybe get a way to unlock on a race track, but beyond that, some advertised top speeds are absurd.
I don't think we should be regulating things from a place of "I can't imagine ever needing X; we should mandate technological controls to prevent it." We should regulate things as a need arises, based on data
The “need arises” part are the thousands of people killed and orders of magnitude more with serious injuries who will never have the same quality of life as they had before the collision. In the case of cars an absolute cap at, say, 85mph would cover the maximum speed legal speed for the entire United States and still be at least 40mph lower than the top speed of almost all vehicles sold here.
It's not about not being able to imagine the need or not. It's from seeing people driving their cars at highly dangerous speeds all the time (easily 20mph faster than most people who are already driving 10-15mph over the limit). If it were only dangerous to the driver, it'd be one thing but they put others in danger. There are countless stories of speeding drivers killing bystanders.
Can it be abused too? Say I have an old car without that limit, harass or attack someone then speed up by only going 15 over the limit? What about emergencies? What about motorbikes in that law?
A ton of unintended consequences to consider.
However, I don’t think any car needs to be able to go over certain speeds, and that could be a place to start. Would the limit be 90, 100mph?
Maybe get a way to unlock on a race track, but beyond that, some advertised top speeds are absurd.