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California bill would require new cars to beep at speeding drivers
The California Senate has passed SB 961, which would require “passive speed limiters” to be installed in all new cars manufactured or sold in the Golden State by 2032.
The motion, introduced by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would make California the first state in the nation to enact the safety requirement, which is similar to a law in the European Union that is set to take effect in July.
In the E.U.'s initiative, drivers are “always in control and can easily override” the intelligent speed assistance system.
According to Senator Wiener, California – and America as a whole – have seen a “horrifying spike” in deaths of drivers, pedestrians and cyclists over the years, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; the California Office of Traffic Safety's 2023 Traffic Safety Report found that deadly crashes involving alcohol and drug-impaired driving, motorcyclist fatalities and teenage driver fatalities all increased from 2020 to 2021.
“These deaths are preventable, and they're occurring because of policy choices to tolerate dangerous roads,” Senator Wiener said in a statement. “The evidence is clear: Rising levels of dangerous speeding are placing all Californians in danger, and by taking prudent steps to improve safety, we can save lives.”
SB 961 would require every passenger vehicle, truck and bus manufactured or sold in California to be equipped with “passive speed governors” by 2032, with a 50% phase-in by 2029.
“Passive speed governors, also referred to as passive Intelligent Speed Assistance…warn drivers with audible and visual signals when they exceed the speed limit by greater than ten miles per hour,” Senator Wiener's office said.
The bill's speed governor requirement does not apply to emergency vehicles, the senator's office added.
SB 961, which passed the Senate by a vote of 22-13 on Tuesday, now moves to the State Assembly, where it must pass by Aug. 31.
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That's what people driving too fast need, a random loud noise to keep them focused on the task of driving
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Can speeding drivers even hear it?
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During the halftime show of an nba game pn tnt recently they had a motorized chair
for stairs 
that started beeping. 
mfw the black 
hosts don't notice.
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THE CAR IS TOO FAST
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Just market it as "authentic 90's JDM speed chime" and people would pay a premium for it
!anime
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Lol my old AE86 had this.
I had that same steering wheel too, Nardi 330mm
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I wouldn't have a problem with this if the car systems weren't so r-slurred. My work car has a traffic sign memorization feature that can't tell apart weight limits from speed limits and routinely warns me that the speed limit is 15 kmh after I drive over a bridge.
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My bucket truck at work does this shit. It beeps about everything. Being too close, being near the lone, speeding, turning too sharply. Eventually you just tune it and every other road noise out, as you drive off an overpass.
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Who'd have thought there'd be an increase in vehicle deaths after that year the economy was mostly shut down.
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The bill was quickly killed on the grounds of being
, since black people are unable to hear 
Trump for prison! Heck yeah brother cheers from Langley!
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Making everyone's car beep uncontrollably would
be a massive troll 
rush.
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I'm mostly surprised by the timeline. It's 100% software, so why is he pushing to have it mandated eight years from now?
Virtually every new car already has a camera capable of traffic sign recognition, even if it's not enabled in software.
But it better not be like that Nissan rental I had. I wanted to use the driver assists except everything kept beeping randomly. I didn't know what it was trying to tell me. I'm in my lane, we're coming to a stop, why are you beeping.
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lmao cucklifornia
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