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California bill would require new cars to beep at speeding drivers (ktla.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The bill sets the limit at 10 mp/h (16 km/h) over the limit before warning drivers. If they're doing this, I'd rather it was something like 2 km/h + 15% over the limit, but that part is pretty reasonable. There's no reason why anyone needs to be doing more than 16 km/h over the speed limit outside of emergencies.

16 km/h over the limit in a school zone is way too fast, though, but using my suggestion above as an arbitrary alternative, going up to 30 + 3 + 4.5 = 37.5 km/h in a 30-limit school zone wouldn't beep at you. That seems reasonable. Fatality numbers are a lot higher at even 40, so letting drivers get to 46 without an additional warning is almost useless.