Method for controlling travel of golf carts and all-terrain vehicles

A method for regulating travel of a golf cart or all-terrain vehicle on both roads which permit only low speed operation up to a limit and roads which permit higher speed operation above the limit, comprising:

• determining, using an electronic controller on the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle, usage of seatbelts for each occupant of the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle;
• determining, using a location determining system at least partly on the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle and coupled to the electronic controller, a current location of the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle;
• determining, using the electronic controller coupled to the location determining system and that receives from the location determining system the current location of the vehicle, whether the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle is travelling on or about to travel on one of the roads which permits higher speed operation of golf carts and all-terrain vehicles based on the current location of the vehicle;
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• when it is determined that the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle is traveling on one of the roads which permits higher speed operation of golf carts and all-terrain vehicles, limiting a speed of the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle, using a speed limiting apparatus, on the road on which the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle is travelling on or about to travel on which permits higher speed operation of golf carts and all-terrain vehicles only when at least one seatbelt associated with an occupant of the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle is determined not to be in use;
• whereby when it is not determined that the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle is traveling on one of the roads which permits higher speed operation of golf carts and all-terrain vehicles and thus is traveling on one of the roads which permit only low speed operation, the speed limiting apparatus does not limit the speed of the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle on the road which permits only low speed operation even when at least one seatbelt associated with an occupant of the golf cart or all-terrain vehicle is determined not to be in use.