Speeders in Canada may change their ways, not by their own doing, but by a device devised by Transport Canada.

The device combines a GPS, speed-limit map, and an undisclosed way to manually override a car’s controls.

Transport Canada researcher Paul Boase told the Edmonton Journal, “The technology has the ability of just saying, ‘OK the posted speed limit is 50, so we’ll let you go 55, that’s it.”

The technology was tested on 10 volunteers in the Ottawa area. The device made it difficult, but not impossible, to press the gas pedal down when over the posted speed limit. But, before everyone gets bent out of shape over the device, it will only be used on habitual speeders and traffic offenders – in its initial application, anyway.

Similar to how DUI-offenders get the Ignition Interlock device; a judge could order the speed-limiting device to be installed on repeat traffic offenders’ vehicles.

“What you basically find is for drivers who need (the device) the most, they like them the least,” Boase said. “That’s why habitual offenders might be the right place to start.”

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