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I understand the reasoning, I just think it's flawed. It's not the limiter that's creating the danger, it's the driver who decided to execute a dangerous and pointless manoeuvre. But yes, practically speaking, people make stupid decisions when driving and you're kind of removing the ability to hastily correct for one of those decisions by limiting their speed. Depressing!
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At least when people make a stupid overtake with limiters they'll be doing 70mph when they plow into each other rather than 120mph, so you know, maybe the backseat passengers survive?
Then again, maybe they won't try the overtake in the first place because that 5 seconds they save doing 100mph instead of 70mph becomes less 'worth it'.
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I'm not trying to justify the overtake as being done for reasons of safety.
I'm saying, practically speaking, people are still going to overtake other people. Hitting a limiter when overtaking is dangerous because it elongates the length of time spent in oncoming traffic. Being able to apply more speed to reduce that time is safer than not being able to.