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If they could automate vehicles this wouldn't be an issue. The current tech isn't there so what if we put them on tracks so they can't crash? We could make them bigger so lots of people could go at the same time and fewer vehicles would be on the road. You wouldn't even have to own it, they could have a regular schedule so you know where and when to ride in one!
Nah, that will never work. Beeping at a driver occasionally though, that will fix things.
Reading about state legislatures is always wild. They always use moon logic when debating and rarely mention the actual content of the bill. Driver deaths are spiking due to greater instances of inebriation on the road therefore to fix it the State of California needs to be able to track all drivers via GPS. Makes sense to me, why not.
- (a) As used in this article, “passive intelligent speed assistance system” means an integrated vehicle system that uses, at minimum, the GPS location of the vehicle compared with a database of posted speed limits, to determine the speed limit, and utilizes a brief, one-time visual and audio signal to alert the driver each time they exceed the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour.
My vehicle already displays the speed limit on the dash. This could be met with a firmware update. Doesn't say anything about sharing that information, it just needs to send a beep and flash a light to the driver one time. Kind of misleading to say that California will be tracking drivers. They're just trying to require a new annoyance in cars, similar to the one that beeps if your seat belt isn't buckled.
I’m opening an auto shop to make the beep sound change to “hell yeah, brother!”
the faster you go the louder "free bird" by lynryd skynryd plays
California freeways are 65mph. Unless there is traffic, most drivers tend to go around 80mph. They will be constant.
In my opinion, this is trying to tackle the issue in a poor manner. People who are speeding already know that they are, so it's not like a beep or visual warning is going to cause them to change their behavior. It's trying to force a technical solution to a non-technical issue.
I just can't wait to see how quickly someone finds a way to bypass this nanny bullshit.
Unless there is traffic, most drivers tend to go around 80mph.
And they aren't constantly getting into accidents? Wild. Someone should tell the politicians that this might not be the source of the problem.
Yeah absolutely fucking not. I control my car, not your fucking legislative whims!
But you are (statistically, assuming you are living in the USA) really bad at it. Maybe you shouldn't control your car.
Or maybe we need laws more like Germany because I'll pass all those tests and be glad to see the failures taking public transport.
Y'all trying to create more GOP'er with this asinine shit. Jesus Christ I'm tired of this nanny state shit.
We just got an electric car that does this and it's annoying as fuck because it often messes up the speed limit and tells you that you are going too fast even though you are not.
My thoughts exactly. There’s no way it’s going to be correct for every situation. It can’t take into account changing road conditions.
It's not even just the changing conditions. It just has wrong speed limit data in some areas and spmetimes it says there is work being done on the road where there isnt and similar
Have fun with that. This will just cause em to break more frequently.
The speakers or the drivers?
The cars, the drivers, the cops that will get honked at and will get angry, the people that will file noise complaints....
I can't read the article because I'm in the EU but I HIGHLY doubt that is the case. Much more likely is that the normal car speakers will just beep at you like they do if you refuse to use a belt.
I understood it as honking at others that go to fast but your explanation is probably more likely... Same EU and the website is shit.
And this would do what?
For the minority of drivers, get them to slow down. For the majority who speed, same as the seat belt alarm that annoys them but fails to get them to buckle up.
Many cars used to do this. There is a reason they don’t build this feature any longer.
I’m sorry - this is just fucking stupid. Cars are becoming way too bogged down with shit like this that acts like a hovering parent who nags you constantly while having to know where you are all the time.
