State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat in California, has introduced a bill that would require car manufacturers to install a device to prevent cars from going over 10 miles an hour over the speed limit. He says it will reduce the number of highway deaths and help the environment to boot. He did it because traffic accidents are an “epidemic” in California. But it’s just another attempt to control everything Californians do. Will they stand for it this time or let it ride like they’ve done previously? It might be “groundbreaking as he claims, but is it wise? The cost of new cars will obviously go up as well. What could possibly go wrong?
Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced the Speeding and Fatality Emergency Reduction on California Streets (SAFER California Streets) Package, Senate Bills 960 & 961, a first-in-the-nation effort to make California roads safe and accessible to all users. Senate Bill 961 requires changes to vehicles directly, including a first-in-the-nation requirement that all new vehicles sold in California install speed governors, smart devices that automatically limit the vehicle’s speed to 10 miles above the legal limit. SB 961 also requires side underride guards on trucks, to reduce the risk of cars and bikes being pulled underneath the truck during a crash.
Senate Bill 960 requires that Caltrans, the state transportation agency, make physical improvements like new crosswalks and curb extensions on state-owned surface streets to better accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, the disability community, and transit users.
These changes are a head-on attempt to tackle vehicle fatalities, which are surging across the U.S.—and especially in California—amid a rise in reckless driving since the onset of the pandemic. A recent report from TRIP, a national transportation research group, found that traffic fatalities in California have increased by 22% from 2019 to 2022, compared to 19% for the U.S. overall. In 2022, 4,400 Californians died in car crashes.
The rise in road deaths in the U.S. is a sharp contrast with reduced road fatalities across the developed world. A recent investigation by the New York Times found that “if the U.S. had made as much progress reducing vehicle crashes as other high-income countries had over the past two decades, about 25,000 fewer Americans would die every year.” Other nations are making progress to protect road users, while in the U.S. the problem grows steadily worse. State Senator Weiner.
The plan to prevent cars from speeding.
This is not a parody:
Just when you thought California couldn’t possibly get any crazier, @Scott_Wiener is proposing all new cars sold in the state would have to be equipped with a device that physically keeps them from going 10 mph over the legal limit. pic.twitter.com/9rz9d8XM10— Amy Reichert (@amyforsandiego) January 24, 2024
This right here is why I will never drive an electric car the government can co-opt and control at their whim.
By the way look up this guy’s other legislation. He’s a beauty. https://t.co/yjjRz5OiKh
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 25, 2024
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So think about it for a minute: a new “legal limit” would have to be set for every different speed zone, so it would likely have to be an AI device that could figure it all out instantly. What would be the result? The whole thing seems nuts instead of education to make sure the drivers in California aren’t crazy speed-demons (they are, for sure.). To prevent cars from speeding seems a little over-the-top.
Mr. Weiner’s legislative works are “diverse.” In December of 2022, he introduced legislation to make using psychedelics legal (SB 58). You might as well read it for yourself at this link. Weiner is a typical San Francisco senator with mostly “progressive” bills, not all of which were bad. But they all cost money and this bill to limit the speed of cars will cost a bundle in a state that has already mandated electric cars by 2035.
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