Young drivers and excessive speeds … a often fatal cocktail. This is what road safety figures show. According to the last evaluation available in 2023, excessive speed remained the first supposed responsible factor in fatal accidents, in 28% of cases, before alcohol, with 22%. A stable figure in the last four years.
So what to do with this scourge? Renault has decided to act simply by offering the speed for young drivers in their CLIO, a public public model.
Special Water of “Young Driver”
The idea is simple: in its latest generation, the brand offers a small software modification so as not to exceed 110 km/h, the maximum speed on a road and, therefore, in France for a “young driver”, under test license.
“This support is carried out by means of a motor calculator configuration made in the subsequent sale, which limits the speed instructions of the vehicle, the regulator and the limiter, by default, at 110 km/h maximum,” specifies the Renault press release, specifying that it is a reversible operation, invited 59 euros.
This youth awareness program at excessive speed was called “Safety Auto”, a safety car wink from Formula 1 and with the pilot Pierre Gasly in the ambassador.
A strong tendency to regulate speed
Europe has imposed an alert to the fly alert since last summer last summer: a sign of light and sound that is activated as soon as the speed limitation is exceeded. An alert that even if it is deactivated during a trip, return default with each start.
More widely in the automotive sector, several manufacturers have already acted a limitation of the maximum speed of their lower vehicles.
In the first place, it was the case of electric cars, which were restricted, such as the Renault Zoé at that time at 140 km/Ho el Peugeot Electric 2008 to 150 km/h.
This support, then extended to all vehicles in a range. This is the case with Volvo since 2020, in Renault and Dacia since 2021. Realizing in a world where ecological conduction has an important place with hybrid, electric. If we add this objective of improving road safety and a generalized awareness of the importance of conducting in an inn way, we are ultimately quite far from the nervous ads of the 80s.
Source: BFM TV
