2015 Hyundai Genesis Sedan To Receive Speed-Camera Warning System
Speed cameras are the bane of any driver’s existence, especially if they’re more trouble than they’re worth for the municipality who experiments with them for a contract period of several years. Future Hyundai Genesis owners in Korea, however, may have a new tool at their disposal that should make dealing with the long lens of the law much easier on the wallet.
Drive.com.au reports the new generation of the Korean premium sedan will use GPS and braking technology to help would-be Alex Roys down to the limit in time to wave hello at the camera. Hyundai representative explained to reporters at the Genesis Sedan’s unveiling in Seoul how the system would work:
It knows there is a speed camera there, it knows where the speed camera is and it will adopt the correct speed. It will beep 800 metres before a camera and show the legal speed, and it will beep at you if your speed is over that.
The system will work best at fixed and average speed cameras, but not against mobile units. Meanwhile, the same self-braking tech used in the preemptive camera evasion will also bring the sedan to a halt to prevent a collision should such an event arise.
Alas, the system won’t be available to U.S. drivers anytime soon, while Korean drivers may have to wait a bit until after the Genesis makes its local debut in October of this year.
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In Korea, speeding is almost exclusively enforced by speeding cameras and all GPS units (OEM, 3rd party, smartphone apps or otherwise) already do this anyway. Well, except for the automatically slowing down part. Premium GPS units already do seamless, over the air updating via DMB-TV channels for mobile locations.
Most highway drivers in Korea have a hard time doing the 100kph that's allowed, so this isn't really a big problem. I was pretty much always speeding on the highway (Lanos powah!), and I never got a speeding ticket, ever. Very rare to even see popo on the highway. They put up cop car lights on little posts at the side of the road and turn them on - I was never sure what that was supposed to accomplish.
After six years in Chicago watching people drive at stupid speeds and in insane, dangerous ways because they seem to believe that it is their God-given right to drive as fast as possible at all times in all places, I'd be happy to see speed cameras every quarter-mile on every street in the city.
Considering the traffic in Korea, perhaps drivers won't need to worry much about being trapped by a speed camera. I can't recall when a car I was in traveled faster than walking speed on the highways in Korea.