• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    if you might otherwise use scooters

    Here you can get a scooter with almost the exact same specs and better equipment 40% cheaper. 2 seater, 45 km/h, 60km range.
    The Fiat cost 99.900,- DKK without doors, the Scooter is 59.900,- DKK.

    And it includes:
    Music player
    Cabin light
    Heating
    Electric windows
    Including Doors as standard!
    Rear view camera
    Remote central locking
    https://lindebjerg.dk/shop/freedom-6502p.html

    I don’t really understand why the law limits these vehicles to 45 kph

    I 100% agree on that point, it seems moronic IMO. 50 is the standard city speed limit, and it’s safer to follow the rest of the traffic instead of kind of blocking it.

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      I don’t really understand why the law limits these vehicles to 45 kph

      they have no impact protection. Nothing, The doors are even plastic.

      This thing is just a version of a mobility scooter.

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        That was 45 instead of 50. I don’t think that would make a huge difference.
        This thing is allowed to drive 130 km/h here, and has even less protection.

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      Honestly. I agree, but… who is actually driving 50? It seems like “everyone” is rather driving 55 or even more. So locking a vehicle at 50 won’t really stop them from blocking faster vehicles.

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        More an more people are driving the legal limit, because new cars have Adaptive cruise control (ACC) that adjust the speed to the speed limit.
        I also used to drive a little bit over too. And when we got our new car, I was a bit annoyed that with the ACC it drives a little bit slower than I was used to.
        But very quickly I got used to it, and it’s so cool that it adjust speed to traffic if traffic is slower than the speed limit, and it keeps the breaking distance, and even stops when traffic stops and continues automatically when traffic goes again.
        It is very common for me now to be in lanes with traffic that drives exactly the speed limit, and all the cars maintain distance and driving the speed limit, probably using ACC.
        So I’d argue that many times everybody is forced to drive the speed limit now, because actually quite a lot of people are doing it, and to pass them all would be both stressful and annoying for a driver that wants to drive just 5-10 km/h above the speed limit.

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          I didn’t know adaptive cruise control did that, that’s super cool. I like how it’s a special mode (because what if you need to go faster for some reason?), but there’s still incentive to use it because, well, it’s heckin’ convenient! It’s basically a “let the car worry about the speed” button.

          – Frost

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            what if you need to go faster for some reason

            With any cruise control you can always go faster just stepping on the speeder. When you release the speeder the cruise control takes over again. You can disable cruise control at any by time touching the break, or turn it off.
            I admit I didn’t know it was this good before I got it, I just thought it was cool it could keep breaking distance. Which was all I thought it could.
            You still have to keep an eye on it though, it can get the speed limit wrong, and you can’t use it if there are special weather conditions like snow or ice on the road.
            But yes it’s an amazing convenience on a normal day. And it has made me be way more calm in my driving, than my old manual.
            But also the silence of an electric is amazing, it’s like driving a luxury car, and it is much less stressing in traffic.