Euro Nanny has decreed that all new cars sold in the UK and Europe are to be fitted with devices to automatically stop drivers from exceeding the speed limit under sweeping changes to vehicle safety rules provisionally agreed by the EU.
Although Britain may no longer be part of the EU when the rules come into effect, the UK regulator, the Vehicle Certification Agency, has said it will mirror safety standards for vehicles in the UK. Remind me again, why did we want to leave the EU?
Let us trust and assume that there are no software glitches/hacks that cause "unforeseen" problems!
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Presumably that would mean that speed cameras will become redundant. In that case, what happens to all that lovely money they generate?
ReplyDeleteThrow in electric cars, needing no heavily taxed fuel, and you will see a significant jump in other taxes to compensate.