Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill to legalize cruising in California, end restrictions on lowrider vehicles
Gavin Newsom signs bill to legalize cruising in California, end restrictions on lowrider vehicles
Wow. My town still has an old "no cruising" sign from the 80s.
Wonder if I can get to it before the city..
In Santa Clara? On El Camino across from the Chili's?
Edit: A bit of advice if you are going to cut one just be sure wear a yellow vest and a hardhat.
What does cruising mean in this context?
It was always explained to me as driving well under the speed limit with loud music and flashy car mods like numatics, hydraulics, and lights.
Driving while brown.
cruising is also used as a term for men meeting men in the bushes
In my small town we had two drive in restaurants (Sonic and a local joint), people would drive from the one on the South side of town to the one on the North side. We would stop at one or the other for a short time and look for friends or to try and plan a party somewhere.
I grew up in CA in one of the most popular cruising areas around.
Cruising was simply just being out, being seen, and checking everyone out. Yeah, if you had a cool car it was a bonus, but it never really mattered what you showed up in. Yelling at your friends when you passed, pulling over to grab a burger when you saw some friends doing the same, it was just a big hangout scene. Bumper-to-bumper traffic on Friday and Saturday nights on about a mile or so of road from about 8-11 pm. It was a big tradition for decades in our town, people from outside towns and even larger areas would come hang out.
No, it wasn’t all innocent. Always some fuckers gotta start shit. Aggro assholes starting fights because reasons. Looked at each other wrong. Revved an engine too loud. Tailgated. Whatever, stupid fuckers. Drinking. Gangs were a pretty big thing and they’d show up and start some gang shit sometimes. Got pretty bad and they lowered the banhammer because they got sick of dealing with the assholes and killed cruising.
Newsom signed AB 436, which will prohibit cities from enacting new laws restricting the display of customized classic cars by cruising on city streets.
Not sure what the point is. “New laws”. There’s already a shitload of laws banning cruising, so it seems worthless to stop water that’s already passed under the bridge.
His new law does the opposite, it makes those cruising bans illegal.
Not sure what the point is.
He's getting ready to run for president and wants all the positive press to make him likable by the GQP. That's the only reason for any of these new laws he has signed recently.
Sorry, but IDGaF about Newsome anymore. He has been vetoing some good bills lately, and while this is probably long overdue for repeal, it feels like a wink to oil companies in light of his other recent actions.
Pander harder, Gavin. Unless you demonstrate a better pattern of behavior, you won't get my vote in the primaries.
He just approved speed cameras in the state. He's dead to me now.
Controversial opinion here, I have no problems with speed cameras. Speed cameras only ticket people breaking the law unbiasedly. The easiest way to not get a speeding ticket, is to not speed. That's it.
My only problem is when the ticket is set to low, as in a ticket is issued within 10% or the speed limit. There has to be room for error between speedometer, tire size, and just human error.
If you can't maintain a reasonable speed in the posted area, then you shouldn't be on the road. If you can and you excessively speed anyway, then fuck you, take your ticket.
This opinion comes from someone who consistently speeds, but keeps it in relatively close.
I'm just some white pedestrian- I like the idea of speed cameras in the city as a deterrent but other than that I'm not sure how I feel.
The way I heard it was:
Speed cameras reduce traffic stops which reduce unnecessary police interactions and violence. So it's commendable
But it obviously increases the surveillance state, which is disgusting
Not sure how to weigh those against each other.
And here's the diffs to the law code.
Here are the two most significant paragraphs that were removed:
The ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to this subdivision shall regulate cruising, which is the repetitive driving of a motor vehicle past a traffic control point in traffic that is congested at or near the traffic control point, as determined by the ranking peace officer on duty within the affected area, within a specified time period and after the vehicle operator has been given an adequate written notice that further driving past the control point will be a violation of the ordinance or resolution.
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It is unlawful to operate any passenger vehicle, or commercial vehicle under 6,000 pounds, which has been modified from the original design so that any portion of the vehicle, other than the wheels, has less clearance from the surface of a level roadway than the clearance between the roadway and the lowermost portion of any rim of any wheel in contact with the roadway.
I have absolutely no idea what this is defining cruising as. What even is repetitive driving? Whats a traffic control point? Google is bringing up military stuff.
Get in your swanky car and drive through town to show it off; then loop around and drive through town again to show it off some more. That's cruising.
It's an intersection
I see you've never been in Alabama on a Friday night.
Ok just kidding. There's a diff. In Alabama there's so little to do people would hop in each other's cars and just drive slow around the block, usually around some central point like a Mcdonald's.
In Cali it's to showoff. This caused some.. problems. Traffic, yeah, they called it traffic.
the lowermost portion of any rim of any wheel
Is that why the skinny tires became a thing? To make lowriders legal by getting the rim of the tire as close as possible?
Looks like we might have a sequel to American Graffiti soon.
I live where that was filmed. McHenry is gonna suck even harder if people start cruising again. Shit's already got a lot of traffic without people just driving around for the hell of it.
As someone who doesn't know what the slang means what am I now expected to see in Los Angeles (I understand this was lifted in some places already)
We need to be getting cars out of our cities. Cali already has too many cars.
Man, our country doesn't have basic things like universal healthcare, and this is what the leaders are working on...
Priorities
The world is burning with climate change
Maffia states are on the rise
The middle east is exploding, AGAIN
The second largest super power is preparing for WWIII
Poverty is increasing world wide
The largest super power in the world still doesn't understand that universal healthcare is good for everyone, except a few rich right assholes
.... But let's make a news article about cruising being semi okay again, because apparently existing laws will remain in effect.
What the actual fuck and can we maybe start improving the world again?
Different newspapers can report about different things y'know
Yeah why isn't the governor of California ending world poverty or solving WW3.
This is what happens when you neglect civics education for a few decades.
Doing the important things it seems.
/s
Man cruising means something very different in California than elsewhere
This has always been the meaning among car enthusiasts everywhere.
What has? The article literally never explains what the fuck it's talking about. I would assume it's not referring to the common English definition of turning on cruise control.
Yeah cruising in the scenes/area I’m in is hanging out in a public area looking for casual sex, especially of the gay variety. It was killed by a combination of aids, the rise of social acceptance, and grindr over the decades. So yeah this is just a very different thing from what the word means to me