Oct. 21, 2025 7:30 AM PT <\/p>\n
To the editor: Why doesn\u2019t California try self-enforcement by allowing the use of in-vehicle monitors to track a driver\u2019s performance (\u201cL.A.\u2019s promise to explore police-free traffic enforcement keeps hitting roadblocks,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 18)? It won\u2019t identify all problems, but it can be used to uncover egregious g-forces (e.g. street racing and street takeovers), excessive speed and even if the driver is texting while driving.<\/p>\n California could also ban the sale of vehicles that can exceed 85 mph (the maximum legal speed<\/a> in any state) and, when there is a collision where excessive speed resulted in a death, sue the manufacturers for selling an inherently unsafe vehicle. The philosophy here is no different than what California has used to ban certain \u201cassault weapons,\u201d high-capacity magazines and Glocks<\/a> that can be converted to fully automatic.<\/p>\n Jim Winterroth, Torrance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 21, 2025 7:30 AM PT To the editor: Why doesn\u2019t California try self-enforcement by allowing the use…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,287,14125,2072,14123,14126,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,14128,1406,10516,13823,14127,14124,178],"class_list":["post-15980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-driver","tag-e-g-street-racing","tag-editor","tag-excessive-speed","tag-in-vehicle-monitor","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-maximum-legal-speed","tag-performance","tag-police-free-traffic-enforcement","tag-promise","tag-street-takeover","tag-unconventional-method","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}