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.
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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.
They wouldn’t be liable for speeders anyways that’s criminal misuse by a third party. Just like how Craftsman isn’t to blame when someone gets hit with a wrench. And there are lawful purposes for vehicles that can travel more than the state’s speed limit, like racing on tracks or when rushing to a hospital in an emergency.
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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
If this passes in California, all their highways will just be a steady sound of vehicles horns.
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Be that as it may, I like his thought of a freeway just honking along like cicadas. My god it would be magnificently annoying.
You just reminded me of this. Fun if you’re driving, but it’s apparently driving people in local villages mad.
At least that one is in tune, unlike others.
the headline is very misleading. There is no beeping at other drivers, or honking of horns.
Just a notification to you, the driver of your own car if your car a) knows the local speed and b) is exceeding it by a set amount.
This notification can be disabled.
like, if you’re in a 30 zone, and go 35, your satnav/gps will go “ding!” and a small light will go on the dash/lcd screen.
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.
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Getting information is “nanny”?
Information by itself, no.
Having something constantly watch my behavior and nag me when I’m being “bad” is, yes.
It’s not “watching your behaviour”. Nor is it “nagging”. It’s beeping when a speed is reached. Quit hyperventilating
Y’all trying to create more GOP’er with this asinine shit. Jesus Christ I’m tired of this nanny state shit.
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The motion was introduced by a democratic senator. Seriously… read the article.
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Kind of his point
How the fuck does getting a speeding indicator mean that you have a nanny state? Merely being given information is too much for you?
Because I don’t want a beep every 20 seconds. It’s annoying. Same with the constant beep if I drive my car 50ft down the driveway without a seatbelt.
Nobody in the US is speeding on accident nobody wants alerts. The only thing this would be useful for is driving through long speed traps with average speed which didn’t exist here.
It only exists to annoy the driver. And if it were a useful feature, not a nagging device you would be allowed to turn it off. Nanny state.
Is it a mammy state when your indicators beep at you?
Yes.
I’m amazed your fragile ego exists a single day
I’m amazed you’re still doubling down after being ratio’ed.
Take your nanny state down votes and leave. Ego 🤦♂️ yeah my ego is hurt sitting in my car because beeping.
Downvotes aren’t an argument
Insults aRE NOt aN ARgumeNt 🤦♂️
Personally, and this is just me I suppose, I’m in favor of laws that serve to keep people safe
Then do something worthwhile and effective instead of pointless shit that just pisses people off. You have limited political capital and this isn’t worth it. Especially when it ends up affecting folks on the other side of the country.
I don’t see how this will make anyone safer. It’s going to be training people to ignore honking.
I am too. I just don’t believe this will do that. It’ll just piss everyone off and mandate surveillance in cars
My blind spot warning lights are never off. That makes them useless
Sounds like someone is always in your blindspot.
Or they have a poorly implemented model, or is broken.
I’m in a rental right now with blind spot detection, and at first I thought it was pretty decent. Recently though, I’ve realized that 75% of the time it dings at me when I signal to change lanes, there’s literally not a single object within 50ft of me on that side. It’s just meaningless noise to ignore the majority of the time.
It’s your car model. Plenty of them are configurable, take relative speeds into account, and quite accurate.
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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.
You would pass all those tests, every idiot does. The harder task is to learn, that cars shouldn’t be driven by every idiot who passes those tests - even if you are allowed to do so.
I’m gonna just guess you’ve never heard of Germany.
Germany is basically Russia, so who cares. Go Trump!
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
I really hope this doesn’t apply to freeways
Yeah like… how fast do you have to drive before the beeps? I always heard 5-10 over is standard
Article says 10mph over the limit
How does it determine the limit?
Also literally all this would do is startle everyone especially people who drive new cars and make residential areas louder.
Lmao, it won’t honk the horn
Ohhhhhh I’m dumb
It’s ok, I’m dumb too.
Most have GPS position and reference a database or they use cameras to see speed signs, sometimes both with one having priority over the other.
It isn’t always accurate.
Honestly what I’m more concerned about is work zone speeds that often don’t get updated on the GPS. Anyone relying on the beep to set speed (which is stupid but likely) will blast through it.
Work zones luckily have all those pretty orange signs and cones to ensure someone knows it is a work zone, don’t need a nuisance beep to know that. As if a beep could stop someone from being a reckless jackass in a work zone.
Atlantians will be devastated.
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.
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.
There’s a really good way to reduce speeding without dumb moves like this. Design the road for the speed you want. Most roads in the US are created first without speed limit concerns, only labeling them based on a weird metric of how fast cars drive through them. Then if they are going too fast, governments just put up more warning signs and call it a day.
There are many techniques in the road design handbook that can be used to make drivers subconsciously slow down for their own perceived safety. And it works! So let’s do more of that and less of this “make car beep” nonsense.
Hollister, CA tried to implement one of those designs and it was comically horrible. Look it up. The stupidest fucking road I’ve ever seen. Made you drive like a drunk person on what otherwise is 25-35mph residential super straight road.
People will just pull whatever fuse it’s on, or find a bypass
They won’t even hear it over the Netflix they’re watching on their phones.
On the phones? Friend, we have huge-ass screens in cars now. With 7.1 sound system
Good bless the Chinese engineers that created the head unit I got for my car off eBay! That thing is incredible
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Fuckin snitch ass state i live in
WTAF?
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 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.
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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.
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Did op change the title? That’s pretty much what it says right now
beep = sounding your horn. In the USA, they use the term “beeping the horn”.
this doesn’t have anything to do with the horn.
I’ve personally only heard “honking the horn” (like as in “honk if you’re horny”) here in the US. In fact personally when I read “beep” I think of sharp, bright, high-pitched, electronic sounds, like that are so common inside of modern cars, but sure I guess I can see where you got confused.
By this same grace though, I wouldn’t call someone a misleading dick over onomatopoeia. If you tell me what word op should’ve used I’ll tell you why your choice is ambiguous too
next you’re going to tell me that people in the USA don’t have blinkers to indicate proposed turning direction.
Heh. blinkers.
It’s like going to the bathroom in a shopping centre. Like there’s actually a bathroom and not just a xitter or toilet.
“new bill requires vehicles to alert their drivers when…etc”
notice the lack of type of notification? and specifying who is notifying whom? It isn’t difficult to not be a misleading dick.
Sure, I’ll give you that
here in the US everyone beeps their horn.
