Comment by pinkmuffinere
1 day ago
> The truck cannot go faster. Floor the throttle at 56mph and nothing happens. The fuel injection is electronically capped.
Man, that's kindof scary -- if for some reason the truck legitimately needs to go faster (eg, escape a warzone, a flood, a wildfire), it cannot do so. I'm sure this was a calculated design decision, but on the surface I'd prefer if the speed was logged and then checked at regular intervals (perhaps with automated reader). That would also allow for easy updates to the limit, tighter restrictions in specific areas, etc. I wonder what all the factors going into this design decision were.
I hope you can accept that all of those things are incredibly rare, and that it's not clear that a higher speed would be a net benefit to the driver, much less all the other road users. Then consider what removing the hard limit does for the other 99.99999999% of the time.
This is a tech site, just imagine what absolutely terrible things could be justified, 'just in case'