It cannot be avoided. But the mandatory speed limiter, which must be in all new cars after July 6, 2024, is actually dangerous, say experts.
Since 6 July 2024, the speed limiter 'intelligent speed assistance' (ISA) has been present in all new cars. And it's impossible to turn off. At least permanently.
Instead, the system must be switched off for each trip, if the driver is not to be warned as soon as the car is going 1 km/h too fast. But now experts warn against the system.
According to the EU, ISA alone must be able to reduce the number of deaths on European roads by 20 percent and the number of injuries by 30 percent.
But it can all end in very dangerous situations. There is no one way to turn off the new alarm hell in all cars. Instead, drivers start looking for buttons and menus to turn off the alarm while driving. And that just creates even more dangerous situations on the roads.
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This is what the editor-in-chief of the Dutch car site Autovisie says in an interview with the newspaper De Telegraaf .
– Many drivers want to turn off these beeping warning systems and then they start looking for the buttons in all kinds of menus while they are driving, which is downright dangerous, it says.
Tesla has made it easy to switch off the mandatory speed limiter. It requires a press on the main screen in the car. On the other hand, that pressure must be created for each and every trip in the car.
Others – such as Toyota – require drivers to sit and fiddle around in menus to be allowed to switch off the warnings. Here, too, drivers need to go into the same menus to switch off the alarm each and every time the car is started.
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