Comment by ricardobeat
17 hours ago
They beep when you go above the speed limit, and only for a couple seconds. If they do that 'constantly' the problem is in the driver's seat...
It takes two seconds to turn off in my car (though by law it has to reset on every drive), but I never bother. In situations where it's "ok" to drive a little over the limit, it's a small price to pay and a gentle reminder.
I don't want it to beep at all. I don't want a reminder. The car is property of me, not the nanny state.
I've rented an Audi in Germany. On autobahns with 140 km/h speed limits there are lots of signs that limit speed to some low values like 50 km/h, but only under some conditions like snow, darkness, workday morning etc. Of course the car had no idea about those, started beeping for no reason and once even decided to do an emergency brake.
The car probably doesn't have perfect knowledge of speed limits across Europe.
The car reads the speed limit signs too, they don't just rely on GPS.
My VW wrongly reads a speed limit off of frontage roads instead of my actual road every single day. When the car was new I tried the speed limit beeper just to see and it isn't worth it.
The speed limit display is great for simple highways and I appreciate the warning when I reach a speed zone, but not ready for anywhere complicated.
In some countries the speed limit can change without a explicit sign (speed limits cancelling out at intersections / changes in pavement, etc.). In my experience, in multiple instances the systems offered a speed limit that is higher than the actual one, which can be dangerous if you're just blindly trusting the clanker
The signs also seem to take priority over GPS, I was on a road with a 50mph speed limit tonight and the car read something it thought was a 20mph speed limit sign. I have the beeps disabled but it still displays the red 20mph sign on the dash to let me know it thinks I'm breaking the law.
from the last rental I had, they're not good at that.
Why wouldn’t they?
Dataset is readily available for most places. Pull local on entry to jurisdiction on every drive…
Have you ever actually worked with geodata in depth? It's a wall-to-wall nightmare.
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> They beep when you go above the speed limit, and only for a couple seconds.
No. They beep when they think I go above the speed limit.
Technically it is wrong 100% of time because the car underreports the speed. But even if we agree to ignore that fact, it is still wrong constantly because the car doesn't have nearly enough sensors and compute power to actually figure out what's the limit at the moment.
Thus this feature is as useful as cookie banners.
Lick the boot more.
If you can't drive into a tree at 200mph and kill yourself in a car, then I do not what it.