gold rover
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@ gold rover - the handy thing with speed sign recognition is that it is instantaneous and doesn’t depend on any database
Didn't work like that on the smart motorways
Didn't work like that on the smart motorways
Tigger Eeyore & Roo
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I'm pretty sure it does on mine, though I'm 70 miles from the nearest motorway and I only get to go on a "smart" motorway about twice a year!
My eyes have done this for years! Although like i said previously, it doesn't help you when the posted limit isn't the actual limit@ gold rover - the handy thing with speed sign recognition is that it is instantaneous and doesn’t depend on any database
Tigger Eeyore & Roo
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The difference being that the last visible speed limit sign is always available to you next to the speedo. You don't have to wait for the next one to come up.
This level of "automation" is de-skilling, pure and simple. This is terrible for society - loads of books on the subject out there....
When you are de-skilled to the level of needing this automatic sh*t, well, welcome to the zombie apocalypse.
It also means of course, that older cars will become increasingly and rapidly obsolete.... and a car will be old within a few years ... which will be great for the big corporations, and quite bad for the planet.
When you are de-skilled to the level of needing this automatic sh*t, well, welcome to the zombie apocalypse.
It also means of course, that older cars will become increasingly and rapidly obsolete.... and a car will be old within a few years ... which will be great for the big corporations, and quite bad for the planet
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gold rover
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I really don't like disagreeing with you, but I have been running up and down from Scotland to London , both M6 and M1 routes, and none of the marques have kept up with variation from norm.
All of that aside, paying attention to road signs, helps drivers stay aware of the road. Speed signs, warning chevrons, slow markers, narrow lanes , etc , etc , are all there to draw your attention to the manner you should be driving. Little icons , are exactly that. We all dismiss emojis, icons, etc, these days. They are small 'addits', which , when in our vision constantly , become background noise.
Cars are not computers, no matter how computerised they become, Take your attention of the computer, you are unlikely to die or kill, cars are a lot more lethal than a computer! Attention should be on the real world around the vehicle, not driving like you're on a computer game. The problem is not how clever the car is, it's that we have not advanced with them. Until we catch up, humans should keep an eye on the real world.
You say that, but computers can be lethal, indirectly.
gold rover
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True but I'm sure you understood the point I was making
Yeah! I'm sure you did
You did , didn't you?
Datatek
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So it actually reads the sign rather than relying on GPS? If so, it must use an optical reader, what happens when it gets covered in road grime or fogs up?@ gold rover - the handy thing with speed sign recognition is that it is instantaneous and doesn’t depend on any database
How does it manage coming into an unsigned 30mph limit that is simply denoted by the presence of lamp posts?
Datatek
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There was a specified distance for 30, I don't remember a different distance for 40, my understanding was that in areas where the street lighting met the 30mph requirement, any other speed had to be signed.
Years ago it was 30 in a built up area and no limit everywhere else.
tomcat59alan
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And they have vowels
Pervert
tomcat59alan
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Datatek
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Happy days
tomcat59alan
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You think? remember you couldn't drive far without a puncture Keith.Happy days
Tigger Eeyore & Roo
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The camera is stuck to the inside of the windscreen, in the area swept by the wiper blade - so keeping it clean isn’t a problem. If it’s covered in ice, the car will tell you that it can’t see for the minute that it takes to defrost it for you.
As for lampposts, it only works on speed limit signs.
A lot of people have got pretty upset that such technology represents the end of the world as we know it and completely removes any driver skill. But then, I don’t miss hopelessly skinny tyres, cross ply tyres, non ABS brakes (and needing to use cadence braking), brakes without servos, tungsten sealed beams, starting carb fed engines from cold, tubes motorcycle tyres, trying to get points to work, gearboxes without synchromesh on first either (all of which which we used to have to make allowances for)
Traffic sign recognition is just a tool, it doesn’t absolve me of responsibility if I screw up and it doesn’t de-skill me, it just helps to automate a pretty dull and unrewarding chore when I’m driving.
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Tigger Eeyore & Roo
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You can watch the road more, if you don’t have to keep taking your eye off it to look out for signs by the side of the road.
It will simply report the number it sees, but then the entire display is a TFT screen (like a mobile phone), so you simply let the car know you’re in a km/h country and it changes the speedometer to a km/h one.
Yes, it will pick out the sign amongst that lot. At night and in the pi**ing rain too. Would you be certain that you’d see it in those circumstances?
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