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Guys,
Speed limiters in the high end BMWs and M-B are about 'good citizenship' and 'showing restraint'. Its voluntary and makes no difference to anybody (insurance or law enforcement wise). Its gesture towards a certain politicla party in Germany who wanted to impose draconian speed limits on Autobahns. Its is 155mph and all BMWs and M-Bs that can exceed this have them fitted for the European market.
Airbus and Boeing (as well as others) make aircraft whose control is completely dependent on computers, usually a odd number.
The pilot 'requests' via the flight deck controls the flight computer reconfigure the flight surfaces to carry out a manoeuvre, say a bank. The computer assess that demnad, such as the rate of change of heading demanded, bank angle requested and compares it to pre set limits. If the limits are exceeded then the max allowed sent to the flight control. If a manoeuvre requested is not in te pre loaded parameters then the closest one is carried out.
However both Boeing and Airbus have discovered that no matter how vast the preploaded database there are always some new ones discovered by pilots in the air...leading to some disasters...
In terms of cars, both McLaren and Ferrari have road cars (the F1 and FXX) which are in constant contact with the facotry. We all have mobile phones that when on constantly broadcast and recieve locational information. How many of us have GPS navigational systems or fixed camera location trackers?.
All the technology exists and is working, the missing piece is integration of these systems and the delivery of the data to 'Government' in the mane of 'road safety' or law enforcement or other 'for your own good and betterment' excuse...
Hell credit card companies are already track you and your life in detail via the credit card expenditure, they know more about you than you do...why should government get in on the act?
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