It's more an objection to the typical "personal freedom" argument you get from car drivers who balk at the idea of speed limiters. There is no road in North America with a speed limit of 160kph, so a hard limit of that value is meaningless. I'd be open to a dynamic speed limiter that was context-aware though: we already see that cars have the capability of knowing the current speed limit and chiming to let the driver know they're busting the limit. There's no reason why the limit shouldn't be enforced there in the same way that e-bikes have a fixed limit... even when they're forced to share a road with cars that do not obey the limit.

I accept your argument that bikes aren't insured or licensed, and that this can be used as an excuse to limit their capabilities, but as one of the law-abiding e-bike riders who's been tailgated, close-passed and nearly run off the road by more than a few angry drivers, I can assure you that e-bikes are not the problem when it comes to safety. 2-tonnes of steel and glass being driven by (licensed, insured) absolute maniacs is the real threat.

That...is a pretty dumb take

i don't agree

cars cause way more deaths, i'm all for limiting them to 30 km/hr. And even if scooters cause deaths its mostly the idiot riding them, with cars, the drivers murder other people ... all the time.

That’s the only way they can get far enough away that I’ll be happy.

Having been on the autobahn in a shitbox Renault econobox rental, 100mph is plenty fast. In North America (especially the rust belt) with how shitty the vehicle safety inspection standards are, I honestly don't trust the people around me to have maintained their car to an adequate standard to be safe driving at 100mph. Don't even get me started on how shitty people's driving skills tend to be.

A car is already a lethal projectile at 60mph. I don't like the idea of increasing the lethality potential for the average highway driving mistake.

That said, with GPS and traffic sign recognition, we can now use dynamic limiters to adjust to match the speed limit imposed where the vehicle is currently driving.

In theory. In practice the car picks up signs from the slip road or GPS location for the parallel local road or doesn't know what the "in caso di nebbia" text under the 50km/h sign on the motorway means.