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It accounts for speeding... How? Cross reference location with local speed limits? Record times above an internally set speed?
New Hondas with front cameras (used for adaptive cruise control and lane departure warnings) will read speed limit signs to display them in the dashboard.
It only parses the number, so if a US car is in Canada it will say the speed limit is 110 mph on the highway. If these GM cars do the same they'd probably think any Canadian car going for a weekend trip to the US did so at prison-worthy speeds.
Yeah, thank god it never reads unrelated signs on the side, and car never tells me the limit is 30 on a fucking 130 kmh highway.
Based on the text of the article (speeding above 80mph)and my experience with an insurance app, it's simply looking for anything over 80mph from calculated GPS speed. It doesn't care about 75 in a 25, just that you don't break the highest possible speed limit
It mentioned logging speeds above 80 mph.
That's the highest speed limit I can find for the US, so if you're 80+, it seems you are breaking the law regardless of location.
There's one exception to this: the southern leg of Texas Highway 130, which runs east of Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin, has an 85mph speed limit.
Even the speed limits are bigger in Texas! 🤠
So you can get to a decent state faster.
You forget that in the States, they say "speed limit is X, so I go X+10", sometimes even 20. It's very common for comments to mention that the flow of traffic is literally 25% faster than the "limit" - it's like culturally so many USians treat the limit as a lower limit. 🫣
The posted speed limit plus 5mph is considered normal where I'm from in America. 10 over is asking for a ticket.
I visited Texas once, and was amazed to see most everyone driving 20-30mph over the posted limit, even past the speed traps with no consequences.
Drove home going 85 and still being passed yesterday. I live in Texas.
If you're not going as fast as they are, you're a potential danger now.
This is particularly stupid considering that your average shitty brodozer is pretty much incapable of emergency braking from 85mph.