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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
my car already has an option to limit speed to the current speed limit of the road. I question the safety of limiting speed because some times you need a bit of power to avoid a dangerous situation. So it depends how they are going to implement it. In my car you can force it to override the limit which for me is the ideal compromise
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Yes, our car randomly went into "limp mode" (engine limits to 3000 revs because its picked up a fault) half way down the M6 a few months ago... Just as we were overtaking a massive truck. Suddenly lost a load of power and couldn't get up to speed. Terrifying.
There wasn't even a "real" problem, the plug for the air filter sensor had wriggled loose so it was picking up a potential fault with the air filter - when there wasn't one, the engine was totally fine, just an issue with the sensor itself
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