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How will my road legal car know when it’s on a track or a closed road? Some how putting a way to disable it defeats the purpose. If its GPS controlled, people will be spoofing GPS to remove the limit, just need a raspberry pie and some other components. You’ll have unintended consequences.





You could have steeper penalties for people who use those types of systems and then go on to get into accidents and kill people. I don't think first degree murder is beyond reason for someone who installs a defeater device and drives at 100 mph and kills someone.

> people will be spoofing GPS to remove the limit, just need a raspberry pie and some other components.

How many, and how long before they straight up deserve to just go to jail for a little society time-out?


They demonstrated the japanese system on topgear once, and it was disgustingly accurate. They drove onto a track and bing it opened up. No lag or anything.

    > it was disgustingly accurate
Real question (no trolling): Is this sarcastic? If not, I don't really understand this English.

This is a common turn of phrase in many languages in informal speech, using negative adjectives for emphasis, instead of positive ones. It carries a light humourus tone, as it kind of implies that the thing "had no right" to be as good as it was, so the speaker is "chastising" it for being so good.

I don't think it's specific to English in any way, but maybe it's also not common in every language or culture. It may also be more common in the UK and certain other English-speaking countries, that use irony a lot in regular (informal) speech.


I’m picking the poster is from somewhere like UK/Au/NZ.

You’d see this here in NZ and not blink an eye.

Is a beautiful turn of phrase!




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