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2026 Speed Enforcement Safety on Highways

NorCalBusa

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Speed Enforcement Safety on Highways

Assembly Bill 289 authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish a work zone speed safety system pilot program. This program will utilize a fixed or mobile radar or laser system(s) to detect speeding violations and capture a clear picture of a vehicle’s license plate.

Citations will later be issued to the vehicle’s registered owner with specified requirements and procedures for program implementation, review, appeal and citation issuance.

AB 390 will expand the “slow down and move over” law to include any highway maintenance vehicle or any stationary vehicle using flashing hazard lights or warning devices such as cones and road flares. This means cars approaching this type of vehicle must move into another lane or slow down if changing lanes isn’t possible.
 
Noted, I always slow for work zones anyway, I'll just have to be sure I'm slowing enough now.
 
GAJ said:
Half the time these zones have nobody working.
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Half? I go by zones for months nobody is there.

It's just going to be another revenue device. They set these up for no reason, anywhere, anytime, for shits .

Someone said our roads are great but the surface sucks greasy balls .

Toll lanes have gone viral you know? That's what they're going to be building.

And they won't do shit about the road surface.

Why does the road surface have to suck so bad?

Why do they spend millions installing a ped overpass and do nothing but fuck up the road surface even more and they just leave it like that?

And do you want to know what? A fucking ped overpass does not need a dotted yellow line nor a roundabout with yellow arrows. Are you kidding me?
 
A lot of the "Work Zones" I go through have the trailer with a speed limit sign and this is your speed display, everyone is going way over that limit. I wonder how that"ll work out.
 
The entire 15 between the 91 and 10 is a work zone.

And, yea, there is definitely work being done, but who knows when its actually happening. Besides occasional crews working on the side (not the shoulder, it's all blocked off with those barriers), there's no obvious work being done. There's certainly nothing being done on weekends.

It filled with 55 MPH "Will be enforced" signs, with no CHP, nobody ever pulled over, no apparent enforcement activity at all.

And who know who's going to get lazer lotto tagged when the flow of traffic is going 80 by those things.
 
berth said:
The entire 15 between the 91 and 10 is a work zone.

And, yea, there is definitely work being done, but who knows when its actually happening. Besides occasional crews working on the side (not the shoulder, it's all blocked off with those barriers), there's no obvious work being done. There's certainly nothing being done on weekends.

It filled with 55 MPH "Will be enforced" signs, with no CHP, nobody ever pulled over, no apparent enforcement activity at all.

And who know who's going to get lazer lotto tagged when the flow of traffic is going 80 by those things.
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I get to the San Antonio area of Texas several times a year to see daughter and grandkids. I hate the Texas weather and several other things about the state. But California is so far behind in reasonable speed limits. Every freeway in the San Antonio area is under construction. Work zone speed limits are 60 - 65. Areas that are not under construction are 75 - 80. Trucks do not have a reduced 55 speed limit, they go with the flow of traffic. California's 55 when towing is a joke, if you ever see trucks running 55 you know there are CHPs in the area. One more thing the school zone speed limit is 20 mph and inforced, no one goes over 20 in a school zone.

Rant over.
 
Someone's has to pay for all the signage! It seems at most work area have way more signs then is needed. I remember counting a dozen for an area where a stoplight was being installed!
 
And the 100mph lose your license dealio.

From the AMA
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Not sure I like the DMV being the judge and jury, but very unlikely to affect me.
 
Don't worry with all the vehicles having active Data connections, not long before they pass laws to have the car automatically snitch on you and ticket you and just charge your Apple Pay™ from your wireless car pay all in 1 go. No need to signage or speed shacks, 100% speed limit enforcement on ALL roads ALL the time....
The automation is all there ready to take over....

Get a carburated dirtbike if you really want to ride free....
 
Dmitriy said:
Don't worry with all the vehicles having active Data connections, not long before they pass laws to have the car automatically snitch on you and ticket you and just charge your Apple Pay™ from your wireless car pay all in 1 go. No need to signage or speed shacks, 100% speed limit enforcement on ALL roads ALL the time....
The automation is all there ready to take over....
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Well damn. What a ray of sunshine you are. :laughing

That will be the time I do move out of CA. You know it will be the first State to try to pull some shit like this off. I am thinking it will be after I am gone, but I think it will happen one day.
 
budman said:
Well damn. What a ray of sunshine you are. :laughing

That will be the time I do move out of CA. You know it will be the first State to try to pull some shit like this off. I am thinking it will be after I am gone, but I think it will happen one day.
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I think the real issue is the constant monitoring and reporting that newer vehicles enable. Whether the state uses it or not, data about where and how you drive is a revenue stream for the manufacturers. They can sell it through data brokers or directly, like GM got caught doing with Onstar.

*edit* For the same reason, when I'm riding/driving my phone is off and often stuck in a Faraday bag. Every app on your phone may well be ratting you out. Newer phones not only know where you are and how fast your going, many have a whole host of sensors that also know how hard you're accelerating/braking/cornering. Insurers - among others - crave that sort of information.
 
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I caught the last of the movie "Demolition Man" last nite.
Our New world seems to be headed that way.

I spent 30 minutes filling out a pad with AI, medical stuff questions.
Every thing I entered, it was redone/hashed three times before it moved on,
Talk about treating you as a 2 year old,
They even used metric tools on my 'Merican body.
 
flying_hun said:
I think the real issue is the constant monitoring and reporting that newer vehicles enable. Whether the state uses it or not, data about where and how you drive is a revenue stream for the manufacturers. They can sell it through data brokers or directly, like GM got caught doing with Onstar.
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The best part is how they get you to agree to it all, it hidden in the menus when you accept its terms of use for wireless CarPlay or Remote unlocking via the app. because lets be real that's all you want but what they want from YOU is for your car to be very nice data mine for THEM. you just need to agree to it...

Careful what you agree to and how it may be used against you in the future.....

budman said:
Well damn. What a ray of sunshine you are. :laughing

That will be the time I do move out of CA. You know it will be the first State to try to pull some shit like this off. I am thinking it will be after I am gone, but I think it will happen one day.
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My guess is that day is coming MUCH sooner then you think. So long as the population of the world soars states like California will attempt to control/enforce environmental policies on national / world stage and limiting people driving will be one of the natural 'solutions'. Considering the High Speed rail project stalled in bureaucracy / de-funding HELL I don't really know how that problem is going to be solved quickly.
 
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