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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Originally Posted by kreeyax
Our new Ford Expedition has it on the instrument panel. It can even incorporate it into the adaptive cruise control to keep you near the speed limit. I turned that off though because it will often see speed limit signs on the access roads along highways and slow you down when you don't want it to. I believe it's camera based and not GPS on this model.
That reminds me of the car my aunt and uncle drove when they would take me with them to their mountain cabin on a weekend as a kid. It was a 1965 Buick Riviera. They set the maximum speed with a little knob on the speedometer, and if they exceeded it there was a loud buzzer. It was a 3 hour drive, and whenever it buzzed, they would turn it up a bit until it got to 80 (speed limit 65).
That reminds me of the car my aunt and uncle drove when they would take me with them to their mountain cabin on a weekend as a kid. It was a 1965 Buick Riviera. They set the maximum speed with a little knob on the speedometer, and if they exceeded it there was a loud buzzer. It was a 3 hour drive, and whenever it buzzed, they would turn it up a bit until it got to 80 (speed limit 65).
I was in a car with that device many years ago. The driver was kind enough to demonstrate it for me.
Our two cars, 2023 Honda Pilot and 2022 Cadillac CT4 Blackwing have this feature. I believe on both it is camera based so the cars are reading the road signs as you drive along.
It does get it wrong on occasion and picks up the route signs (I have noticed this in the Pilot). We have a state route 100, and sometimes it displays the speed limit as 100 on that road . I wonder if anyone has tried that as an excuse when getting pulled over!
I've rented Nissan Altimas that have this feature. I believe it picks it up by reading signs rather than GPS.
** Just read into it, its done by a camera mounted by the rear view mirror and windshield. Some BMW and Mercedes models have had them in their cars for 15 years now. At a glance it looks like all major automakers have them in some of their cars now.
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