A new law affecting all new vehicles on the continent came into effect last week. It means all cars manufactured in the EU since July 6 are legally required to be fitted with speed limiters.
Speed limiters are safety devices that can be fitted to vehicles and are designed to improve road safety. They use sophisticated Speed Assistance (ISA) technology, which works by using GPS data and traffic cameras to calculate speeds.
The system sends a warning to motorists telling them to reduce their speed if their vehicle starts to exceed speed limits on a particular stretch of road. And if drivers don’t heed those warnings, the technology can even reduce the vehicle's engine power to automatically slow down their vehicles.
