Symbolic bullshit distraction, these fuckers just made SPEED CAMERAS LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA.
California government is broke and needs more money. This is an easy way to get some easy cash.
Also helps reducing speeding. Look at Switzerland. They have barley and speeding
We’ve had it in NYC for some time now. Just a money grab aka taxation
easy solution to that is to keep destroying them until they’re not financially viable to keep replacing them
Why is that a bad thing? Why were they not legal before?
As an Australian I must tell you that speed cameras are awful. Until you know what it’s like to never want to put your foot down even when it’s safe to do so then you won’t understand why they suck so much. Massive speeding fines or instant loss of license. Doesn’t matter what the conditions were.
Point to point cameras are awful too. If you get from camera A to camera B too quickly that’s also a fine or loss of license.
I’ve never been fined or anything like that because I do the speed limit, but sometimes it would be nice to stretch the legs of the car a little more when it’s safe.
Failing that I’ve got to drive about an hour away to find somewhere quiet with a low police presence. We have ridiculous discourse shoved down our throat such as “every km/h over kills” meanwhile our highest highway speed zones are 110 (70mph), with most being 100 (60mph), with no flow of traffic discretion.
The moment speed cameras are introduced they’re not going away since they are lucrative for bringing in revenue.
Hell yeah. This rules. I love living in a state that walks back on shitty laws. Would be great if the shitty laws didn’t get enacted in the first place, but hey, given the state of the country, I’ll take it.
My city still has a cruising ban at our waterfront. It’s not enforced much anymore, but cops used to sit on both ends and count. Couldn’t go down and back more than once.
Hell yeah. Your brothers and sisters in Detroit (OG cruise culture) support this 👏
I wish Lowrider esque paint schemes and colors become a thing again. I would like to see more big flaky shiny paint.
I just wish nice paint jobs of any style would become a thing again. I’m pretty tired of everything looking like a clapped out rusty piece of shit these days.
It still exists and sometime you find something truly unique
Oh sweet. Just what California needs, more pollution.
Cruising is back but gas is still $5.50 so what’s the point
The cruise
Where do you live that gas is $5.50? It’s $2.45 where I am.
Wait…low riders weren’t allowed to cruise in groups? We’ve been doing car cruises for decades, you’re telling me only low riders weren’t allowed? I’m so confused about this ban. How was it enforced?
Saw a bunch of them in Hollywood a couple months back on Vine St on a Friday night. Some were bouncing, some are weird angles and all the crazy stuff. Nobody seemed to care besides their minor impact on traffic.
I dont get how that wouldn’t be a 1st amendment violation.
No, all cars were banned from cruising. Or more specifically, banned from driving past the same place multiple times within a certain time frame. Low riders were affected, but the ban wasn’t targeting them out of some racial animus. It was to stop gangs and drug dealers. You could see “no cruising” signs in many parts of Los Angeles.
I remember seeing one of those signs on Sunset Blvd back in the ‘00s. Crazy.
how does law enforcement differentiate cruising from commuting?
I live in Mass, and even here, cops get bent if you don’t give them an answer when they ask where you’re going. They desperately want driving without a destination to be a felony for reasons I can’t imagine.
Probably by seeing the same group of cars crushing around while on patrol.
Interesting. Where I’m from here in LA, every Sunday you see large groups of low riders cruising.
Makes me think they enforced this ban as hard as the enforce window tinting (not hard at all).
I’m in LA and cruising never stopped lol unless it’s a huge number of lowriders going under the speed limit causing traffic problems, cops don’t care. Car clubs cruise Whittier Blvd every weekend
Fantastic. 30 years later, and my car’s cruise control is finally legal.
Don’t fall for it…it’s a trap!
They’re trying to trick you into driving Low & Slow, instead of Fast & Furious…
Mostly unrelated but about cruising, our local city council here in the middle of no where Illinois banned cruising in the early 2000s because they thought it didn’t look good for the town to have a bunch of high school kids hanging out on the main street. It was such a stupid choice many local business fought against it because the kids would go buy fast food, candy, soda, whatever while cruising.
Fast forward a few years later and the kids had nothing to do here and drugs and parties became a thing. Now at least once a year some high school kid dies in a drunk driving accident or there is other trouble. I remember our local county sheriff back in that day saw it coming a mile away. He said “why would we stop the kids from cruising? Every kid in the county comes to town, spends money, and they are all in one place so we know they aren’t out causing trouble.” But the old fucks in charge on the city council couldn’t have kids having fun in town now.
My small-ish midwest ban had such a law on the books. The “main drag” in town was a 35 zone, 2 lanes each direction, lined with every business you can imagine. I don’t know what year the banned “cruising” but something like if spotted 3 times in a short period, you can be ticketed. So as 16 year old me said to friends… “So from home to ice cream stand, no wallet, back home, get wallet, back to ice cream place, eat, and driving home I can be pulled over, this is BS!”