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Man cruising means something very different in California than elsewhere
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.
Excellent advise. Look like you belong, and people won't ask questions.
I am always surprised how little people pay attention to you when you are wearing a hivis vest and hard hat.
There's battery powered sawsalls out there now.
I've got a cutoff wheel that would chop the post in a minute or so. But a socket set with a drill should only take half that.
Don't even bother with the post. I bet you can get through the clamps in less than a second with a 2 foot stepladder.
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.
And that’s currently illegal in California?
It was mostly a Latino or Black thing, depending on the area. Sometimes associated with gang activity.
It was fairly easy to outlaw and then selectively enforce. It’s basically a law that allows cops to bother people.
The practice has been replaced with sideshows.
Get in your expensive machine and consume some fuel, brought to you by the car and oil industry. It’s not marketing it’s culture!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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's a mixed bag. He's totally moving to the center so he can run in 2028. Totally disappointed with him
He's out of his mind if he thinks any conservative is going to be interested in him as a centrist. Just the word "California" makes conservatives in my area shudder.
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.
Imo it's just a bullshit revenue generator, and an invasion of privacy/expansion of the surveillance state. Cops should only be focused reckless drivers, drunk drivers, and people on their phones that are actually putting people in danger. Someone accidentally doing 35 in a 25 isn't a danger. I haven't gotten a speeding ticket in over a decade, and I'm a very safe driver. I can almost guarantee once these go into effect, they will put them in places where the flow of traffic is generally not going the speed limit on most days, and just rake in money. I'll probably start getting tickets, and it will impact my insurance premiums.
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.
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)
Vatos driving low and hella slow, probably. Not like LA moves any faster anyhow.
I haven't been in LA much but I really do have to wonder how the hell anyone can distinguish between cruising and normal highway speed there.
Aside from the obvious, I mean.