I can only talk about the law they put in and my questions as to what it is going to do to the boating community.
While in central Alaska, in the military, we had a rescue boat, a Chris Craft 25 foot jet boat, 351 Cleveland marine, to handle the current of the Yukon River, about 11 knots. And it had a kill switch built by the manufacturer. I felt a lot better we had it as the Yukon can fool you easily if you don’t stay on the cut bank and if you skim a sandbar everything goes flying and the boat can hit other things in the river like 15 foot trees floating down in breakup. Can do a lot of damage and cause a lot of people injuries if the boat continues with no pilot. With the kill switch activated, the engine stalls and the boat comes down off step and will rest in the bar not looking for something else to hit.
rwood
I’m not particularly in disagreement with the law.
What I was voicing disagreement with was the idea this type of law would be addressed prior to so many major problems we have in California.
In fact the article was from Texas, so that skewed the meaning of my post.
In California we have major water problems and it impacts millions of homes. There are other issues that impact millions of homes.
So yes, it kill switch is a big deal. It’s not so much in the over scheme of things when you’re discussing water provision to tens of millions of humans, and their property/property values.