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| Hyundai Genesis 2015 |
The
new 2015 Hyundai Genesis, which goes on sale around the world this year, will
quickly have the skill to automatically brake for speed cameras. The car will
have a built-in map of speed cameras and standard speed cameras, and then use a
arrangement of GPS and its fancy Automatic Emergency Braking technology to
brake if you’re still going over the speed limit when you reach the camera.
While this characteristic is probably authorized, it does appear to go against the
spirit of speed cameras; after all, if you can just keep your foot down, and
rely on the car to automatically brake for speed cameras, that’s almost not
very safe, correct???
Hyundai’s
novel speed catch escaping tech seems to be a delayed addition to the 2015
Genesis. When we reviewed the car back in April — and awarded it for midsize sedans no less – there was no
state of the clever Automatic Emergency Braking being used to hoodwink speed
cameras. Speaking to the Australian website Drive, Hyundai says the new speed
camera tech won’t be accessible at launch, but in its place of will be added
later.
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| new Hyundai Genesis camera checking |
A speed camera, that you might found
available in the UK
Functionally
the tech is very straightforward — and it makes me surprise why no other car
manufacturers has apply it before nowadays. Essentially, the 2015 Genesis is
loaded up with a big list of speed camera locations. When you come within 800
meters (half a mile) of a speed camera (measured via GPS), the car will
confirms you the speed limit and bleep if you’re going too fast. If you’re
still breaking the speed limit when you reach the camera, the car’s Automatic
Emergency Braking (AEB) tech will boot in, ensuring you don’t get a ticket. It
isn't entirely clear where Hyundai is getting its speed camera position
information from, but it’s probably SCDB (a crowdsourced speed camera database)
or something like.
It’s
value pointing out that related technology before now exists — there are
Android and windows apps that will bleep at you when a speed camera is near —
and that, strictly speaking, it maybe isn’t illegal. If Hyundai’s system
actively sensed speed traps (radar, lidar, etc.) then it might be a unusual
story — but even then, radar scanners like the Valentine One and Escort
Passport Max are legal in most US states, the UK, and plenty of other
countries. If your car can automatically brake for fixed speed cameras, why
shouldn't it be able to automatically brake for mobile speed traps or highway
patrol?
