Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill to legalize cruising in California, end restrictions on lowrider vehicles
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill to legalize cruising in California, end restrictions on lowrider vehicles
The city of Sacramento repealed its ban on lowriding cruising in 2022.
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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.
The closest "city" to my shitty town was too poor for swanky cars. We used to cruise the strip in shit boxes.
I used to see spoilers bolted to the trunks of shit like Honda civics bc for idiots spoiler = cool, no matter what you frankensteined it onto
During the recession I saw a Honda with honest to God plastic painted dinner plates bolted to the cars wheels. It was ridiculous .
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?