Try this thought experiment: Your smarty-pants car is fitted with something called intelligent speed adaptation.

CNN: Behold the?all-seeing, self-parking, safety-enforcing, networked car

In 1997 Oliver Carsten, a professor of transport safety at the University of Leeds in England, coordinated a major European research project on intelligent speed adaptation.

CNN: Behold the?all-seeing, self-parking, safety-enforcing, networked car

The manufacturers are also developing adaptive cruise control, which can automatically maintain a safe speed and distance from other vehicles, and intelligent speed adaptation, which can, in its most active form, prevent a driver exceeding the speed limit.

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