RE: OBD 3

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@xxxxxxxxx>]

> With OBD3 and a radio reciever (which most cars have anyway) it would be
> about as easy to govern maximum vehicle speed  using roadside
> radio beacons
> as it would be to automatically issue speeding tickets. By using roadside
> beacons, vehicle speeds could be limited to legal maximums (or
> slower under
> conditions of heavy traffic, adverse weather, road hazards, etc.) In other
> words, with an OBD3 compliant vehicle, it could be made impossible to
> speed. I'm sure this won't happen, though. since speeding tickets are such
> big money makers. (So call me a cynic....)

quite frankly, i'd love to see this happen.  it would be the quickest way
towards rational speed limits.  right now, nobody (wll, almost nobody) obeys
the posted speed limits.  if everybody was forced to obey them, they wake up
and demand something more rational to obey.

my .02,

bs

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