By James Salmon for the Daily Mail
Published: 23:08 GMT, 27 March 2019 | Updated: 23:13 GMT, 27 March 2019
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‘Big Brother’ fears emerged yesterday about EU plans to fit speed-limiting technology in new cars.
A European Commission blueprint to stop drivers going over the limit also involves an aircraft-style ‘black box’ to record speed plus driving and location data.
Campaigners fear these tracking devices will allow police, insurers and even hackers to spy on people and monitor all their movements.
The Intelligent Speed Assistance technology is at the centre of a European road-safety shake-up. It can respond to changing zones and restrict the vehicle's top speed accordingly
‘Intelligent speed assistance’ is at the centre of a European road-safety shake-up.
These systems are capable of automatically stopping cars from exceeding the limit or cutting the speed if they pass into a slower zones. But the Department of Transport insists that mandatory systems will not physically slow a car.
It says drivers will simply be alerted by a dashboard light and an audio alert, similar to existing warnings when seatbelts are left unfastened.
The technology will have to be installed in all new cars from May 2022 and in existing models two years later. Other features include
