A device that responds to changing speed limits on roads and prevents vehicles above you is to searches on London streets.
Transport for London (TfL) is the intelligent speed adaptation (ISA) system, experiment to know a digital card uses the vehicle of the local speed limit anywhere within the M25.
The car is prevented in the technology most restrictive mode, acceleration, when the speed is reached. The delimiter can be disabled so that it advises the driver from the speed and an override switch is to completely disable the system.
The study, which starts later in the summer, see a London bus and a taxi that technology in addition to 20 vehicles from TfL workers driven equipped.It will monitor driver behavior and journey times and evaluate the effect that sticking to the speed limit on vehicle emissions.
TfL hopes it result in fewer accidents - it is a 10% discount in case of accidents, estimates you also driver if two-thirds of the driver using the ISA system - acceleration to avoid sanctions.
Chris lines, head of transport for London's road safety unit, told BBC Radio 4's today programme that while there are a wealth of information in modern cars, not yet addressed the issue of information of the driver speed limit wurde.Und he said that London's streets mapping would "guarantee the accuracy of the system".
However, motoring journalist Quentin Wilson the program said that the drivers take dangerous ability to adjust your speed could be.
"I think, everything takes an item of driver control must be checked very carefully," he added.
"We have seen where people will leave themselves on sat navs too much - you set off cliffs."
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