Based on the title, I thought you were going to go another direction. But isn’t it insane that a typical consumer car is capable of driving significantly over 100mph? In large parts of the country, there’s nowhere that it’s legal to drive anywhere near that fast, and an ordinary driver will never have a legitimate reason to drive that speed. I understand why this hasn’t happened, but wouldn’t it also be better if normal cars just weren’t capable of going over, say, 90mph?
If you make a car with a max speed of 65mph by decreasing the amount of force available, it will be:
impossible to pass cars safely, because you won’t be able to overtake quickly
very difficult to maneuver while going near 65 mph, because you won’t be able to accelerate quickly
very annoying to change lanes, because while you are vectored to the side, you will be going less than 65 miles per hour down the road because you will max out at (65 * sin(theta)) mph, making it difficult to speed up while changing lanes, which is often considered good form
very difficult to go up steep hills at speed, because you will use most of your power fighting gravity.
It’s very difficult to decrease max speed by decreasing performance without creating a car that is much worse.
The thought would be that it would be the same car, but with some kind of software/hardware limit that prevents it from continuing to speed up once it reached some set speed, like 85 or 90. Not to limit the power train.
Based on the title, I thought you were going to go another direction. But isn’t it insane that a typical consumer car is capable of driving significantly over 100mph? In large parts of the country, there’s nowhere that it’s legal to drive anywhere near that fast, and an ordinary driver will never have a legitimate reason to drive that speed. I understand why this hasn’t happened, but wouldn’t it also be better if normal cars just weren’t capable of going over, say, 90mph?
Nowhere legal on public roads; you could take your car to a track.
I mean, probably, but isn’t people driving 100mph+ a tiny fraction of deaths from speeding?
If you make a car with a max speed of 65mph by decreasing the amount of force available, it will be:
impossible to pass cars safely, because you won’t be able to overtake quickly
very difficult to maneuver while going near 65 mph, because you won’t be able to accelerate quickly
very annoying to change lanes, because while you are vectored to the side, you will be going less than 65 miles per hour down the road because you will max out at (65 * sin(theta)) mph, making it difficult to speed up while changing lanes, which is often considered good form
very difficult to go up steep hills at speed, because you will use most of your power fighting gravity.
It’s very difficult to decrease max speed by decreasing performance without creating a car that is much worse.
The thought would be that it would be the same car, but with some kind of software/hardware limit that prevents it from continuing to speed up once it reached some set speed, like 85 or 90. Not to limit the power train.