XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Sam Plusnet:   
      
    > On 22/09/2024 07:59, Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
    > > Ah, maybe I have. My 2019 Toyota Corolla has a system that reads the   
    > > speed-limit signs, displays the currently active speed limit, and changes   
    > > the usual black-numbers-on-a-white-background display to   
    > > white-numbers-on-a-red-background if I exceed that speed. It very   
    > > occasionally gets things wrong but is usually reliable, even on those   
    > > parts of the island afflicted by speed limits in MPH. So my reading of   
    > > things is from my own relevant experience rather than a journalist driving   
    > > clicks.   
    >   
    > This will be more of a problem for some, depending upon where you live.   
    >   
    > My car uses a combination of satnav map data which includes the set speed   
    > limit on each road, plus the output of the camera which (attempts to) read   
    > speed limit signs.   
    >   
    > Since the default speed limit in Wales was reduced to 20mph, the speed limit   
    > displayed by my car has been wrong more often than it is correct[1] - and   
   not   
    > just reading "30" when it ought to be "20".   
      
   That is very tedious, and a very different situation to mine.   
      
    > At the moment that is a nuisance. If that same incorrect data is to be used   
    > in the way described in this thread, it becomes far more than a nuisance.   
      
   No rush to buy a new car, then.   
      
    > [1] In a 8 mile radius around my home, I am not exaggerating when I say   
    > "more often wrong that correct". - and yes the satnav's mapping data has   
    > been updated twice in the year since the limit was changed.   
      
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