Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

• bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  New Hondas with front cameras (used for adaptive cruise control and lane departure warnings) will read speed limit signs to display them in the dashboard.

  It only parses the number, so if a US car is in Canada it will say the speed limit is 110 mph on the highway. If these GM cars do the same they’d probably think any Canadian car going for a weekend trip to the US did so at prison-worthy speeds.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, thank god it never reads unrelated signs on the side, and car never tells me the limit is 30 on a fucking 130 kmh highway.

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• anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It mentioned logging speeds above 80 mph.

  That’s the highest speed limit I can find for the US, so if you’re 80+, it seems you are breaking the law regardless of location.

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  • Kanzar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You forget that in the States, they say “speed limit is X, so I go X+10”, sometimes even 20. It’s very common for comments to mention that the flow of traffic is literally 25% faster than the “limit” - it’s like culturally so many USians treat the limit as a lower limit. 🫣

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    • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The posted speed limit plus 5mph is considered normal where I’m from in America. 10 over is asking for a ticket.

      I visited Texas once, and was amazed to see most everyone driving 20-30mph over the posted limit, even past the speed traps with no consequences.

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      • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m in Southeast Pennsylvania and they’ll whack you for 10 over, but 20-30 over is not rare here. People just don’t care about anyone but themselves on the road.

        I take all back roads to work now and it’s much better even though the drive is twice as long.

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      • Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Drove home going 85 and still being passed yesterday. I live in Texas.

        If you’re not going as fast as they are, you’re a potential danger now.

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    • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I take it those are the people downvoting that comment, like I made the speed limits or collect the data. 😆

      I didn’t know if I’ve been anywhere that people wouldn’t say 80+ is fast though.

      My old commute was a half hour all highway and busy roads. New commute is an hour, but all lazy back roads and it’s so much more relaxing. People make driving into a win/lose game or something around here.

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    • skulblaka@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Around where I’m at you’re at semi-significant risk of getting pulled over if you’re driving under the speed limit. The police assume you’re drunk or high and if you’re not they’ll give you something about “being a hazard to other traffic”. Speed limit+10 is the safest speed to move at around here because you’re matching other traffic and matching what the cops expect of you.

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  • corvaxL@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s one exception to this: the southern leg of Texas Highway 130, which runs east of Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin, has an 85mph speed limit.

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    • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even the speed limits are bigger in Texas! 🤠

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      • Bdtrngl@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So you can get to a decent state faster.

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• XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Based on the text of the article (speeding above 80mph)and my experience with an insurance app, it’s simply looking for anything over 80mph from calculated GPS speed. It doesn’t care about 75 in a 25, just that you don’t break the highest possible speed limit

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