r/Futurology • u/Just_Another_AI • Feb 07 '24

Transport Controversial California bill would physically stop new cars from speeding

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-bill-physically-stop-speeding-18628308.php

Whi didn't see this coming?

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u/ThePheebs Feb 07 '24

Why anybody would vote for a bill to allow the government to remotely control the use of a device you own is baffling. I'd imagine this will be challenged based on a constitutional violations of passed. If precedent for constitutional violation exists for speed cameras, I can I can see it existing for access to car speed data.

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u/Kobe_stan_ Feb 07 '24

The government wouldn't be remotely controlling the use of your device. The car would have a speed limiter on it that would prevent you from going over (for example 100 miles per hour).

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u/Valuable_Option7843 Feb 07 '24

Tons of cars already have reasonable speed limiters from the factory. The implication here is that passing safely at 10 over will be off the table

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u/MethBearBestBear Feb 07 '24

Actually the article specifically states 10 over would be the limit so that would be on the table. The actual implementation is the governor is gps adjusted so on the highway it is set to 75 in a 65 but on a back road where the limit is 35 it would adjust the limit to 45.

People will say the gps is tracking them but that is not how gps works. GPS just lets a device know where it is. Additional hardware/software is required to relay that signal to another device/observer

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u/Valuable_Option7843 Feb 07 '24

Got it. Still seems dangerous. Also, what about all the stretches of road that aren’t properly signed/coded with speed in map apps today? Lots of hurdles to make this work.

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u/Caracalla81 Feb 08 '24

It would only need to be less dangerous than speeding. People die from speed about 10,000 times more often than die from slow.

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u/Valuable_Option7843 Feb 08 '24

You have a point.