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This is part of the push to prep people for autonomous cars.

Of course, autonomous cars will be programed not to exceed the speed limit due to liability concerns. But no one will use an autonomous car if it won't go over 65mph while everyone else is doing 80mph. It fact, it could often be more dangerous for an autonomous car to drive at the speed limit when all of the traffic is flowing substantially faster.

Thus, they will have to slow all of the rest of the traffic down to the speed limit so autonomous cars and regular cars are all moving at about the same speeds. This is how you get that started. First, its an option. Then its on but you can turn it off. Then its on all of the time with no provision to turn it off. Just like stability control.

Also, on the list of must-have's for autonomous cars is no-fault insurance (across the nation). When the car drives itself, who is liable for an accident? The car owner will refuse responsibility because they weren't driving and the car mfg's don't want that liability, so there will have to be an agreement where regardless of what happens or who is at fault, each party covers their own repair/medical/etc expenses.