Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
There have been lots of studies that show that people are less alert and less engaged with the tasks of driving if they are isolated from the experience. So quieter, modern cars with greater degrees of automation. Since automatic lights became a thing, I see a lot more people driving without lights at all, for example. And also studies which seem to indicate that the concentration on speeding offences (cameras, etc) leads people to assume that if they aren't breaking the limit, they are a good driver. They even renamed them 'safety' cameras, for heaven's sake. If that doesn't send out a message that if you're not speeding, you're golden, I don't know what message it does send out.Still not a convincing argument.
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Whether some motorists would 'behave' in a certain manner after the change is of course pure speculation either way - unless there have been controlled experiments in this area that prove conclusively otherwise, but there is a level of common sense and logic that can be applied
So, in summary, it's not an outlandish suggestion that if people are no longer required to take responsibility for their speed, they'll just drive at the speed the vehicle permits them to.