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Big surprise: Car industry doesn’t like the idea of speed governors

December 17, 2018

They fought them in 1923 and they are fighting them today.

As noted in an earlier post, there is discussion in Europe about installing “Intelligent Speed Assistance” on cars, which is a fancier name for a speed governing device that controls how fast a car can go. It is not a new idea;

In 1923, the City of Cincinnati proposed a law that would require speed governors on cars that would shut their engines off if they exceeded 25 miles per hour. Peter Norton writes in Fighting Traffic about the reaction from the industry:

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