Antiquated Motorway Speeds.

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Originally Posted by Avalon

I hate to tell you this, but most new cars are already fitted with black boxes from the manufacturer, called Event Data Recorders (EDR's). Almost all cars with airbags will have a black box that records data when there is an accident, and can show details about the speed of the car, if the breaks were applied, if the occupants were wearing a seatbelt, etc. for the few seconds just before any crash. Not the same thing you are talking about, but if you get in an accident the data can be pulled from the box and used in court to get a conviction. Big Brother is watching......

Damn - and the prosecutors have legal access to this data?!

Originally Posted by Avalon

In the early 80's I recall that all speedometers here topped out at 140 km/hr, which I believe was mandated for the same kind of reason. It was eventually abandoned as it did nothing to slow people down........

I had a job in university working for a printing company as an apprentice printer and delivery driver. The van I drove was a full-size GMC, brand new with the stupid 140km/hr speedo. Anyways, I remember looking for a certain exit in the west end of Toronto. Since I wasn't familiar with the extreme west end, I relied on my boss' instructions... 'just keep going west on the 401 until you see the exit'.

Turns out this street didn't have highway access and I didn't realize this until I started to see signs for Guelph (a town west of TO).

So I turned around and to make up lost time, I floored it... I actually wrapped the needle around to the peg at Zero/km/hr and it was bouncing up and down on it... I must have been doing over 200km/hr.

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Originally Posted by Atomic

I had a job in university working for a printing company as an apprentice printer and delivery driver. The van I drove was a full-size GMC, brand new with the stupid 140km/hr speedo. Anyways, I remember looking for a certain exit in the west end of Toronto. Since I wasn't familiar with the extreme west end, I relied on my boss' instructions... 'just keep going west on the 401 until you see the exit'.

Turns out this street didn't have highway access and I didn't realize this until I started to see signs for Guelph (a town west of TO).

So I turned around and to make up lost time, I floored it... I actually wrapped the needle around to the peg at Zero/km/hr and it was bouncing up and down on it... I must have been doing over 200km/hr.