Posted on 05/22/2024 12:06:50 PM PDT by KingofZion
The California State Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would require new vehicles to come equipped with a function that warns motorists when they’re driving 10 mph over the speed limit.
If passed by the state Assembly and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, SB961 by San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener would make California the first state with such a requirement for new vehicles. The bill cleared a significant hurdle Tuesday, passing the state Senate on a 22-13 vote.
Specifically, SB961 would require new vehicles built or sold in California to include what’s known as “passive speed governors” that “warn drivers with audible and visual signals when they exceed the speed limit by greater than 10 miles per hour,” according to Wiener’s office.
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These are very annoying - our company pool cars had them and they would screech as soon as you hit 74 mph. Also dangerous as there are times when you need to punch up to pass slower vehicles.
Kalifornia Über Alles!
Why does Linda Ronstadt sing so slowly?
She has a governor on her.
Dated, I know.
That would have to require a gps with mapping software built into every car.
How long before that data is sent to the state to bill you for every mile driven?
How does the device know that you are 10 miles over the speed limit?
Does the device function if you’re going 75 miles an hour based on the assumption that the speed limit is going to be 65?
But suppose you’re going 40 miles an hour in a 25 mile an hour Zone. How does this device know what sort of Road you’re driving on, ? Theoretically it should alert you if you’re going 40 miles an hour in a 25 mile an hour Zone but how does it know that you’re on a low speed Road, or on a freeway, or in a residential area?
GPS app already does this.
#ing Rats
I’m so sick of these turds and it’s practically impossible to vote any of them out of office. Everything’s rigged for democrats in this state.
I had a company car with that. The guy who had it stupidly turned it on. I only had that car for a few weeks so I never figured out how to disable it. It was insane.
My current one has a collision warning alarm. I was in the middle of a hard stop when it went off the first time. It shocked me and I almost hit the car I was trying to avoid.
I pulled over and figured out how to disable that nanny state nonsense.
HOW does the car know the speed limit where you are???
I thought that is what the Mile Per Hour Gauge was for.
LOVE MY OLD IRON EVEN MORE
THE FUSE PANEL MUST BE HUGE.
If it passes, all cars sold in the US will have it.
They want to take everything you have and control everything you do.
Our Hyundai Tucson displays the speed limit on the dash and it turns red when it’s over the speed limit.
How in hell did government get into the car design business? Now they’re in the refrigerator biz and everything else you can think of. Everything...
1. That’s not a ‘governor.’
2. Cars already have audible and visual signals that you’ve exceeded the posted speed limit.
The ‘speed governor’ had been previously, and correctly, described as a “...device that would make it physically impossible for vehicles to go 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limits.”
I rented a 2024 Chevy SUV recently, and it squawked at me the entire time. I couldn’t turn it off. It was part of their “Adaptive Cruise Control.”
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