[ericd]

Until driving behavioral norms change significantly nationwide, yeah no.

[zip1234]

What would the reasoning be for this? Trucks are already limited in this regard and it doesn't cause catastrophe. Why should a company be allowed to knowingly break the law?

[dahfizz]

> Why should a company be allowed to knowingly break the law?

That's an extremely strong assertion. Do you believe all car makers are breaking the law by making cars that can drive 80+ mph? By having cruise control that can be set at 80+mph?

[ericd]

Why do you think this is the company breaking the law? It does what the driver tells it to do, the driver is fully in control of the speed it goes.

I can't speak to what trucks do, but those are commercial vehicles, and have very different performance characteristics from cars.

[jnwatson]

The latest BMWs have a feature where you can have the cruise control speed automatically adjusted to be the current speed limit.

In the US, that is an almost universally useless feature. Standard freeway speed is 10 over the limit.

[ghaff]

>Standard freeway speed is 10 over the limit.

It really depends. In my experience in the Northeast, when speed limits are 70-75 mph in more rural locations, I don't see most cars traveling at 85.

[throwaway0a5e]

80ish dropping to 70 for tight curves and other "features" is pretty standard for everywhere in the Boston-RI-CT-NYC corridor for pre and post rush hour.