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Apparently pedestrians should take personal responsibility but not drivers
I don't understand how they want to use cars to enforce this electronically. My car tries to tell me the speed limit, and it's often wrong. I think you need to have a signal built into the road to tell cars the speed limit, and that sounds expensive and impractical.
But designing roads so lower speed feels reasonable is very effective. You can make the road narrower, curvier and bumpier is various ways, but you can also make it appear or feel narrower, curvier and bumpier without actual making it so.
The electronic solutions are definitely shit shows. They're probably going to try and use them to enforce it, anyway. If nothing else, it's cheaper than building speedbumps etc. everywhere.
I shudder to think what will happen when I'm driving on a 120 kph highway and the camera on my windscreen sees a 30 sign on a dirt road next to the highway.