{"id":2453,"date":"2024-01-25T22:26:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T22:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/california-bill-would-mandate-all-new-cars-have-device-to-automatically-limit-speed-to-10-mph-over-limit\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T22:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T22:26:22","slug":"california-bill-would-mandate-all-new-cars-have-device-to-automatically-limit-speed-to-10-mph-over-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/california-bill-would-mandate-all-new-cars-have-device-to-automatically-limit-speed-to-10-mph-over-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"California bill would mandate all new cars have device to ‘automatically limit’ speed to 10 mph over limit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A California Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill he calls “groundbreaking” that would require all new cars sold in the Golden State<\/a> to be equipped with a device preventing them from traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, introduced the Speeding and Fatality Emergency Reduction on California Streets Package this week that includes a provision that would require “new vehicles sold in California” to “install speed governors, smart devices that automatically limit the vehicle\u2019s speed to 10 miles above the legal limit.”<\/p>\n

“These changes are a head-on attempt to tackle vehicle fatalities, which are surging across the U.S. \u2014 and especially in California \u2014 amid a rise in reckless driving since the onset of the pandemic,” a press release<\/a> from Wiener\u2019s office explained. “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.”<\/p>\n

The bill package also “requires side underride guards on trucks, to reduce the risk of cars and bikes being pulled underneath the truck during a crash” and “physical improvements like new crosswalks and curb extensions on state-owned surface streets to better accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, the disability community, and transit users.”<\/p>\n

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The press release argues that these changes are meant to “slash” the “California road deaths epidemic.”<\/p>\n

“The alarming surge in road deaths is unbearable and demands an urgent response,” Wiener\u00a0said. “There is no reason for anyone to be going over 100 miles per hour on a public road, yet in 2020, California Highway Patrol issued over 3,000 tickets for just that offense. Preventing reckless speeding is a commonsense approach to prevent these utterly needless and heartbreaking crashes.”<\/p>\n

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Not everyone is on board with the legislation, including social media users who expressed frustration with the plan.<\/p>\n

“Imagine an empty highway in the middle of the night and you can only go 65,” author Richard Hanania posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Just when you thought California couldn’t possibly get any crazier,” former San Diego County Board of Supervisors candidate Amy Reichert posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told Fox News Digital the agency “does not comment on pending legislation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A California Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill he calls “groundbreaking” that would require all new cars sold in the Golden State to be equipped with a device preventing them from traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, introduced the Speeding and Fatality Emergency … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}