California has a draft bill (SB 961) which basically says....if you sell a new car in the state, it has to have the technology to track the GPS location, the speed on that road, and to have a warning 'sound' to tell you that you've exceeded the limit by 10 mph.
I'll just say if you went to most car companies....they have the general tracking technology already, but you'd have to pay 'extra' for the detailed map which has up-to-date speeds. As for the warning sound? It's probably a 8-minute problem for some Japanese guy to wrap up.
The question is....would you really want to pay extra for the monthly updates to the map technology, and do you really need a 'beep' to tell you that you exceeded the limit?
Would the beep sound eventually be replaced by some tune....like 'Highway to Hell'?
All of this just adding to the average cost of a car? Well....yeah, that does seem to be the path.
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