can gosafe vans be placed anywhere now ?

mrcheez

Its the speed limiter that adjusts in real time to the current road speed limit that I am referring to.

E.g. going from 60 to a 50 road it lowers speed accordingly. The majority will maintain a speed over 50 and hence get caught by a gosafe van (going back on topic)

magicbastarder

that speed limiter has been mandatory on all new cars sold in the EU since july, and mandatory on all new car models which were introduced after july 2023.

GerardKeating

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122654391#Comment_122654391

Cruise Control is a good alternative, just set it to the speed limit and relax, well on motorways at least.

listermint

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122655613#Comment_122655613

Nonsense. You literally said its max speeds that causes accidents it's not.

Now your saying speed limits, entirely different thing. But also again not core cause of accidents.

Statistically cars are safer than ever, but distractions are now more prolific.

Have you considered banning smart phones and anything in the car that distracts the driver?

vrusinov

Maybe the speed limiter works well on some cars, but mine is very, very often wrong, e.g. thinking it's 30 on the motorway - either because it has wrong map, or I think sometimes it would pick up the speed limit from the slip road.

So I had to disable it - thankfully EU did not mandate it being on permanently.

unkel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122655924#Comment_122655924

What's quite shocking is that handsfree calling - fully legal - has about the same accident rate as the driver being on the old 80mg drink driving limit (replaced by 50mg in 2011)

It is much safer to be a bit over the new 50mg limit than handsfree calling. But it gets you an instant driving ban if caught

And of course texting with the phone in your hand while driving is more dangerous than being twice over the current drink driving limit, yet many people do it and almost nobody ever gets caught let alone fined over it

Perhaps there should be more Gardai on the road focussing on this. Strict enforcement and serious fines. Rather than the catching fish in a barrel fining perfectly safe motorists doing 140km/h on an empty motorway. But hey that is harder work, so it will never happen…

bladespin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122656280#Comment_122656280

This could be changing: they've a new

https://www.newstalk.com/news/on-the-road-with-the-garda-lorry-we-got-two-truck-drivers-without-seatbelts-in-two-minutes-1765641

at their disposal lol, police in the UK have been using trucks elevated vantage point to nab molibe phone users for years now, our lot are typically a few years behind the times.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122656280#Comment_122656280

i'll see if i can find a link, but apparently research shows that having a conversation with a passenger is safer than making a handsfree call - which i found counterintuitive, but one theory is that a passenger is a second pair of eyes for a distracted driver.

in general, that should suggest that a having someone in the passenger seat means a collision is less likely, but i don't know if any research backs that up.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122656309#Comment_122656309

the gardai are doing this now.

https://www.thejournal.ie/gardai-in-unmarked-truck-to-police-irish-motorways-in-new-tactic-to-catch-distracted-drivers-6489118-Sep2024/

bladespin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122656339#Comment_122656339

Yep, same story

unkel

Yeah I've seen the truck introduced. Good idea. If only to catch truck drivers using mobile phones, which seems ubiquitous.

Mind this is Ireland, must be the lowest presence of police on the road / enforcement in the entire EU

listermint

A funded garda bike unit would pick up hundreds of people every few hours.

I can't travel 20 meters without a car left or right whatsapping

unkel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122656684#Comment_122656684

Most people don't do it to do evil, it's just a bad habit that is not punished. The roads would be a lot safer if it was strictly enforced with on the spot fines of say €200-300 (forget about penalty points) and a seriously high chance of getting caught

mrcheez

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122655924#Comment_122655924

I think you're a bit lost buddy. I wasn't talking about accidents it's was talking about the addition of a "smart limiter" to automatically adjust speed without the driver needing to worry if they missed a 50 sign after coming off a 60 road in order to avoid getting caught by a Go Safe van.

When you said "It isn't max speeds that cause accidents ....." I thought that was a bizarre response 😀

listermint

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122656971#Comment_122656971

You'd still be wrong though. That's my entire point.

mrcheez

Lol 😆 ok tell that to Ford then for adding a dynamic limiter