Just a few weeks ago I brought you word that more than a half dozen of California’s largest and most influential police, safety and transportation associations had serious issues with California’s “Cool Cars” law because of concerns about everything from tracking of GPS braceleted criminals, to the ability of those EZ Pass tollbooths to operate, to the functioning of cell phones in emergencies.
Those associations wrote letters to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) explaining their positions and imploring CARB to reconsider. The “Cool Cars” rules are set to be finalized on May 7, making the last ditch effort by these associations even more interesting. It now appears that CARB has taken the warning seriously, and will be amending the rules in some major way to address the concerns prior to the May 7 deadline.