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All this makes no sense to me! Whilst I'm all in favour of ways to improve car safety, I don't see how this will work.

The report states that it won't restrict your speed, but just 'warn' you. People who have a driving licence know the speed limit; generally speaking 70mph on motorways and dual carriageways, 60mph on single carriageways ('A' roads) and 'B' roads, and 30mph in built up areas.

They will see the speed limit signs in various places as they drive, and will have it displayed on the speedometer in the car (some might even have a heads-up display). As well as having some common sense and 'driving to the conditions', just how exactly are these warnings going to be anymore able to make you slow down? Perhaps a ship's fog horn inside the car when you go over the limit!

When you consider the make up of roads in Great Britain (Northern Ireland doesn't get included in the stats), motorways, dual carriageways and single carriageways only account for 12.7% (31,400 miles) of the total, and 'B','C' and 'U' roads account for 87.3% (215,300 miles) of the total, yet these latter ones have a speed limit of 60mph.

To be honest, I just see this as an excuse to have 'black boxes' fitted to cars, which will initially be used only in the event of an accident (fair enough), but the police will then be given the authority at a later date to allow them to inspect this data at any time, and will use this to retroactively fine people for speeding, giving the government another revenue generating stream.