# So smart cars know the speed limit?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 10, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-smart-cars-know-the-speed-limit/827498 "2019-01-10T02:22:06Z")\
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My 2018 Honda Accord doesn’t have a navigation system, but it still shows the speed limit. It does this, as people have said, by using a camera to read the speed limit signs.

It is called the Traffic Sign Recognition System, if you want to Google it.

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