Governor Newsom’s veto of SB 961 should make it clear to advocates and policymakers that we should organize and push for speed-limiters—which would actually prohibit people from speeding—rather than merely a single beep when you go 10 mph over the spee...
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Governor Newsom’s veto of SB 961 should make it clear to advocates and policymakers that we should organize and push for speed-limiters—which would actually prohibit people from speeding—rather than merely a single beep when you go 10 mph over the speed limit. No compromises
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I'd support a hard speed governor... but cars definitely make mistakes. I drove my in-laws' new Mazda, and while on the freeway, it read a speed limit sign on the frontage road, and was beeping at me to slow to 30mph.
There are probably some workarounds. Like: if the car thinks you are over the speed limit by 10+ mph, it won't allow you to increase speed... but it also won't slow the car to 30mph on the freeway.
There are probably also some software fixes.
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@NNN @LukeBornheimer Saw this today with a UHaul rental. GPS thought I was on the road next to the freeway and kept complaining that I was going 65 in a 40 when I was going 65 in a 65.
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@vwbusguy @NNN @LukeBornheimer Still, these are failure modes that are a lot more safer than the opposite of allowing overspeeding beyond a defined limit (which in some cases (at least in some places, no idea about California) is even excessive already, but that's a different issue...).
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@njsg @NNN @LukeBornheimer It would very much not be safe to abruptly throttle someone to 40 on a 65mph freeway.
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@vwbusguy @NNN @LukeBornheimer It would definitely be much safer than overspeeding outside of a freeway.
Also, aren't drivers supposed to keep significant distance in such motorways?
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to njsg last edited by [email protected]
@njsg @NNN @LukeBornheimer You've lost me with this argument. Forcing drivers to not go with the flow of traffic and possibly 25 mph under the limit is incredibly dangerous. There's no reasonable justification for that outside of catastrophic mechanical failure.
I'm also concerned about the violation of privacy required to do this, mandating of the state and companies the ability to track everywhere you go by legal compulsion. That's dystopian. Well meaning, but dystopian.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by [email protected]
@njsg @NNN @LukeBornheimer As someone who regularly bikes, I believe protected and enforced bike lanes are a far better way to focus resources. For cars, there is a thirsty market for smaller, simpler vehicles. If it weren't so, the US would not be threatening a 100% tariff on imports offering those things. Cars need to get simpler, maintainable, and smaller. Like, <= 1980's Volkswagen smaller.