Hyundai’s new car will automatically slow down for speed cameras

We’re sure there are more than a few of us who have been pulled over for speeding or who have been caught on camera speeding. However if you drive along a certain road of highway long enough, chances are you will know where the speed cameras are at, but what if it’s a completely new road? What do you do? Well Hyundai is hoping to solve it for you with the Hyundai Genesis. The Genesis will be Hyundai’s latest car model and will combine both GPS and braking technology together. Basically it will be able to detect when a speed camera is nearby and will help slow your car down so that you are within the legal speed limits so that you won’t get caught on camera and issued a fine.

Cars have long used GPS and mapping features to help drivers detect speed cameras, but Hyundai’s latest vehicle goes one step further to ensure you truly avoid them. The Hyundai Genesis combines GPS and braking technology to slow the car down if drivers are speeding when they approach a speed camera. “It knows there is a speed camera there, it knows where the speed camera is and it will adopt the correct speed,” explains Hyundai’s Guido Schenken in an interview with Australia’s drive.com. The speed camera detection system will also alert drivers 800 meters in advance and sound a signal if the car is speeding ahead of a camera. Fixed-speed cameras and average-speed cameras are detected by the car, but the system will obviously not work with mobile cameras or highway patrol cars. The automatic braking for speed cameras may prove controversial to some, as safety advocates could argue it simply encourages drivers to speed without the repercussions of a speeding fine. Compared to the complex radar and laser detection systems, or plain old GPS alerts, Hyundai’s integration is clearly more complete. It’s also a hint at what self-driving cars will be capable of in future.