New Nissan GT-R to contain GPS-enabled speed limiter

by STOPandGO — published on February 27th, 2008

O’Reilly Radar reports that Motor Trend has reported that Nissan’s newest GT-R model will contain a speed limiter that uses the car’s built in GPS to determine the maximum safe speed.  On highways, the car will be limited to about 110 mph, but the driver can navigate through menus on the car’s computer to enable a special “race” mode if the driver is at a pre-approved race track.  A sign of things to come?

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