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   David Zipper (davidzipper@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 10:06:32 JST David Zipper

   Wow. Carmakers are going to hate this, but I think it's great:

   A new California bill would require all new cars to contain speed governors that prevent them from going 10 mph+ over the speed limit.

   https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/car-speed-governors-bill-18624126.php

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     Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 10:07:17 JST Andreas K

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     @davidzipper In the EU actually, AFAIK, it's been mandatory for all new car types for the last 3 years or so, but from July 2024 all new cars registered for the first time for road use will require this (and half a dozen other gadgets).

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     Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 10:07:18 JST Andreas K

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     @davidzipper We do this in the EU already.
     Now if you just tell me how cars are supposed to reliably tell the speed limit.

     Analysing video for signs is highly reliable (in the data science way), >90%.

     GPS location (does have a problem with parallel roads, so is that the city road inside the neighbourhood, or the interstate?) + map data (needs constant updating and will never we 100% up to date).

     So yes, it's one cool gadget more that in practice one needs to turn off after powering on a car.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 repeated this.