But It's Not About "road Safety", is It?

There's a good summary at Sky News about the pro's and con's of the EU's proposal for automatic speed limiters i.e. they are a load of nonsense.  Before they start lecturing us about "road safety" they might like to think about learning from us how to get road deaths down to half the current European average (one of the things of which we in the UK can be rightly proud, I think).  But the article misses out the most fundamental point, which is behind two-thirds of EU proposals, and that is that some lobbying body somewhere has spotted a gap in the market. If they can persuade the EU to pass such a crackpot Regulation or Directive, then some large corporate somewhere will be able to earn itself silly retro-fitting 250 million motor vehicles with these gadgets.  Even if they can only charge €10 a pop, and it will probably be more like €100, that is still a shed load of money, with no chance of a refund as and when it turns out they cause more accidents than they prevent.