California Passes Bill Requiring New Cars To Beep At You When You're Speeding

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California Passes Bill Requiring New Cars To Beep At You When You're Speeding
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It's the standardizing that worries me. When it's required, people probably aren't going to be able to truly turn off their GPS (maybe this is already a thing, I don't know).

Edit: And when it's classified as a safety feature, it will [most likely] be illegal to disable, making car owners criminals if they refuse to be tracked.

Using GPS is not tracking.

To calculate a speed, you need 2 different locations at some time delta (2 different times). How is recording locations, even just 2 over the span of some time delta, not "tracking"?

The car is only tracking itself. No information needs to leave the car. I assume that's not what people are talking about when they say "tracking".