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I really hope this doesn’t apply to freeways
I really hope it does
Exactly - stick to the speed limit and the car won’t beep. Some cars have this as an option already (my 2019 Kia Niro hybrid has) and I set the limit, it’s a bit of a faff and I don’t often use it as I stick to speed limits anyway. It wouldn’t be a great leap to connect this to the car’s GPS/Mapping system.
Of course you’ll have those that think speed limits are for other people/petrol heads complaining about their ‘rights’ and all that guff.
The bill sets the limit at 10 mp/h (16 km/h) over the limit before warning drivers. If they’re doing this, I’d rather it was something like 2 km/h + 15% over the limit, but that part is pretty reasonable. There’s no reason why anyone needs to be doing more than 16 km/h over the speed limit outside of emergencies.
16 km/h over the limit in a school zone is way too fast, though, but using my suggestion above as an arbitrary alternative, going up to 30 + 3 + 4.5 = 37.5 km/h in a 30-limit school zone wouldn’t beep at you. That seems reasonable. Fatality numbers are a lot higher at even 40, so letting drivers get to 46 without an additional warning is almost useless.
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 favorite part of that is “what database?” If it’s local, who is responsible for updating it and how often. If it’s remote, who is responsible for updating it, how often and who pays for the connectivity costs and equipment?
Also since it’s GPS based, does this mean all new cars in CA will come with free Nav systems? (I know, I know)
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
And this would do what?
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.
That site redirects you if you don’t click a button…