UK Conservatives defend right to break speed limit
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On 2 September 2014, Conservative MEPs put their foot down on EU attempts to fit cars and vans with hi-tech devices to stop them breaking the speed limit following UK press reports that they were in the pipeline.
The European Commission said there were no concrete plans, however, insisting that the results of a stakeholder consultation into the issue had not yet been finalised.
Intelligent Speed Adaptation works using satellites, which communicate limits to cars automatically, or using cameras to read road signs, to automatically adjust the speed of the vehicle.
‘Under the proposals new cars would be fitted with cameras that could read road speed limit signs and automatically apply the brakes when this is exceeded,’ reads a report in the Sunday
Telegraph from 1 September.
The Mail on Sunday said that UK transport minister Patrick McLoughlin had instructed his officials to block the move because they ‘violated motorists’’ freedom.
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