California’s crime-friendly environment has led to numerous Legal Insurrection reports of smash-and-grab robberies, Beverly Hills becoming a ghost town, piracy in Oakland Day, and a constant stream of organized retail theft.
And while we reviewed some of the states crazy new laws that became effective this year, it certainly hasn’t stopped Sacramento from churning out more insanity.
The California Senate recently passed SB 961, a measure that 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.
Of course, the more obvious reasons for the spike in incidents — distracted driving from cell phone use and illegal immigrants violating our road rules as well as those related to border control — are entirely ignored by these virtue signalers.
It must still pass a vote in the California Assembly before it becomes law, which must happen by August 31. The chances of that are quite high.
Tbe bill places a lot of demands on the car companies. This will, in turn, make cars more expensive to purchase.
The technology, known as intelligent speed assistance, uses GPS technology to compare a vehicle’s speed with a dataset of posted speed limits. Once the car is at least 10 mph (16 kph) over the speed limit, the system would emit “a brief, one-time visual and audio signal to alert the driver.”It would not require California to maintain a list of posted speed limits. That would be left to manufacturers. It’s likely these maps would not include local roads or recent changes in speed limits, resulting in conflicts.The bill states that if the system receives conflicting information about the speed limit, it must use the higher limit.
If the proposed bill gets signed into law, it would make California the first state in the country to require a speed-limiting device. Of course, 11 other states followed our folly in forcing EV’s onto a now unwilling population…so some of you may soon be facing the same rules.
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