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All new vehicles sold in Europe – including Northern Ireland but not Great Britain – will be required from now on to have intelligent speed assistance technology installed.

From 7 July 2024, every vehicle sold in the EU and Northern Ireland will need to be fitted with a range of technical safety features as standard. The most notable of these is the Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA) or speed limiter.

Those vehicles already registered or in circulation are exempt, but any existing unregistered cars on forecourts will have to be retrofitted with a speed limiter before they can be sold.

This ISA mandate comes after the European Commission’s legislation that made it a legal requirement for all new vehicles sold in Europe to be fitted with a speed limiter from 6 July 2022.

The difference is that while drivers of most new cars with this feature were able to override it and simply turn it off, it is now impossible to permanently turn it off as it restarts each time the engine does.

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  • in reply to Mark Tickner

    What about reading MPH and KmH?.

    Regarding graffiti, here in the US I have seen signs changed from 30 to 80 by just one pen stroke!

    Peter Brooks

    Palm Bay 

  • in reply to Peter Brooks

    Ah, we have:

    • signs covered by bushes
    • signs set at the wrong angle
    • two set of signs side by side for off ramps
    • signs that are missing and the local authorities haven't bothered to replace it yet (which makes it interesting, because you should apply national speed limits at that point)
    • signs with graffiti

    Probably more use cases that others can put together :)

    If you use GPS and data to work out the road speed (which is what google maps does), you have inaccuracies in the stored data, new roads that are missing and the general inaccuracy of the GPS itself.

    I notice that some OEMs are putting a switch on the dashboard that you can press to disable the feature. If some markets don't have it, there will likely be a method to turn off the feature in the software. No OEM writes market specific software, its all handled by configuration options.

    Although UK is excluded, I believe our vehicles will have it turned on by default also.

  • The Germans love to drive on their Autobahn, which in certain sections has no speed limits. In fact I have been driven on the Autobahn at 175 mph.

    So I guess they will not buy French cars.

    The problem with reading the speed using information from the signs, is when they are covered with mud or snow.

    There are some places here in the US where there are two speed limits printed on one sign - A high limit for daytime driving and a lower one for night time driving.

    I don't know if such signs exist in Europe.

    As a final comment  I suggest you view the following youtube song video "Beep Beep -The little Nash Rambler" from 1958.

    Peter Brooks

    Palm Bay FL

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