What I’m reading is that every car will have to be equipped with functioning GPS that’s going to check against a database of speed limits.

—Speed limits that can change and be out of date. —GPS data that could be stored and extracted from the dealership and sold or given to the government, insurance companies, and law enforcement. —GPS data that could be sent in real time if the car has a cellular connection or hijacks the cellular connection in your phone when you connect it to the car.

This is bad. Really really bad.

When I read the headline I briefly imagined a world where people who bought new cars were statutorily required to honk at other drivers for their driving.

There are definitely areas of California where going less than 10 miles over the speed limit will put you well under the flow of traffic in every lane. If you're not going 80 on 80, you're gonna have a bad time.

Our GPS often shows the incorrect speed limit.

Someone driving at an unsafe speed? How about some distractions, that should work out great!

What will it use to determine where you are and what the speed limit is?

Google maps? Apple maps? Is there some government mapping service with speed limits that are updated based on construction?

Can I turn it off when it is constantly wrong on rural roads?

It not the job of citizens to enforce the law but I guess cops are too busy murdering citizens.

Beep beep!

Car, I'm on the highway! I know GPS drifted a bit, but I'm not on the residential road next to the highway that has a 25 mph speed limit, I'm on the highway with a speed minimum of 45 mph!

Beep beep!

Haha this will make using car alerts completely meaningless

How about tailgating?

My car beeps at me if j go the wrong way down a 1 way street. Of course it hasn't updated the maps of the area where i live in at least 10 years so it just beeps constantly.

Enshittification is hitting every part of society...

Is this about speeding?

Or is this about getting every car to broadcast it's location data?

Fuck that.

The car has to track your location and regularly download the local speed limits so it knows when you are speeding? Bet it's uploading your location too. This is way invasive and not just annoying.

Mine does this, but it's a user configurable speed limit.

The light repeating ding of the AE86 after it screeches around every corner

Literally impossible unless the cars have some kind of tracking software to monitor location.

and you know if its doing that, its not doing it without leaking your data to law enforcement and advertisers.

So, yeah, no thanks. Train cops to do their actual, legitimate jobs instead of letting them waste their time with actual fucking inhuman torture, and the issue would also be solved. and in the right way, instead of the invasive privacy destroying way.

I'm surprised California dealerships aren't on top of this as a huge threat to their industry. Everyone will want to buy a car out of state.

So this turns every car on the road into a speed sensor yes? And then the cops use that aggregate data to feed cops info to inform speed traps and collect ticket quotas

Almost feels like this law will segue into some form of subscription based nonsense…

This thread is yet more proof that Lemmy is full of paranoid Luddites who think everything is a slippery slope.

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Why would you spend such a large amount of money for a new car? I don’t get it. If you are middle class it is like 50% or more of a whole year of income. If you are wealthy it’s still stupid to waste so much money on a thing that generally will depreciate in value. I don’t understand why so many of my co workers keep buying cars so they can go to work and buy more cars.