New driving laws effective July 1, 2025

ifiddles

ifiddles

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Saw this posted by a friend on FB...did a search and only a few hits came up...is this for real? If so, I don't agree with mandatory ADAS nor the 30 km/h school zones on a 24/7 basis...

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If I've seen anything when it comes to the quality of drivers today, these 'laws' will be ignored by most...
 
Drivers will find new ways of doing "shortcuts". The police have been in my neighbourhood several times over the past month or so, because drivers blow through the 4 way stop in the area, and the stop sign at the end of the street which turns into a school area. I'd expect more of this.

Thought trucks were already governed with speed controls. I don't see this doing much especially when people cut truckers off then brake, expecting the truck to be able to stop. Or try to merge into a lane at the wrong speed.

If people can't drive in a lane, maybe they should not be driving. I have a feeling these assistive devices while helpful will just lower driver skill and observation.
 
ifiddles said:
is this for real?
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No, it's just a few sites latching onto some garbage they found online and making articles out of it at best, and it's just total clickbait BS at worst.

Most traffic laws are provincial, not federal, to begin with. And much of what is claimed is just not even close to factual, much less anything coming into law in a few weeks.
 
It might be hard to wean drivers from their Timmies. Can you be charged for looking at your smart watch if you only checked the time?

I thought driving regs were provincial so why's Carney's mug in the picture?

If this all comes about it will mean a lot of extra attention for the drivers. However the brain-dead pedestrians and clueless e-bikers can go further down the moron hole and blame the drivers.

Since you can walk into an e-bike store with a handful of cash and ride out on a soon to be modified vehicle enjoying the privileged use of the sidewalk, contrary to the HTA.
 
ifiddles said:
Saw this posted by a friend on FB...did a search and only a few hits came up...is this for real? If so, I don't agree with mandatory ADAS nor the 30 km/h school zones on a 24/7 basis...

Canada’s Driving Law Overhaul Begins July 2025 – Key Changes Explained For Drivers

Canada’s new driving laws begin July 2025. Discover major changes on speed limits, ADAS, BAC rules, and distracted driving penalties.
cultural-harmony.com cultural-harmony.com

blog.truckerguideapp.com

New Driving Laws in Canada 2025 – What Is Coming This Summer?

Discover the latest reports on Canada driving law changes in July 2025, including distracted driving rules, trucking updates, and mandatory vehicle tech upgrades.
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The province banned time of day speed limits a while ago I can't find adas mentioned anywhere else except that article.

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nobbie48 said:
so why's Carney's mug in the picture?
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Because there's also sorts of bad actors out there now working really, really hard to discredit and smear him. Look at the deepfake that came out a few weeks ago with some other fantastical BS that got peoples boxers in a full twist when it was all complete BS.

This sure seems like one of those situations.

Too many people just blindly believe anything they see online however, so this will rile up a bunch of people and add gas to the newfound "F Carney" fire that a lot of people are trying to stoke.
 
What percentage of stuff found on the internet, random articles, stuff that comes up when you let a search find things for you, is some combination of AI, clickbait, misinterpretation, exaggeration, and general BS?

I don't know what that number is, but I do observe that it is getting higher. Much, much higher.

This "new driving laws effective XXX" fails the BS test right in the title. Some of what's in there may have an underlying nugget of truth buried way deep inside, but it's surrounded by a whole bunch of probably-AI-written crap. As MP astutely observed ... in Canada, "driving laws" are provincial. There are Federal motor vehicle safety standards ... but those aren't "driving laws".

There's a certain voice that certain AI programs seem to use by default. You all know it. As soon as I hear that voice ... OFF. Probably, somewhere, there is a real person that the AI copied the voice of. Maybe, that real voice might have published a thing or two on the internet, and now AI is using that voice for all of its crap (unless someone using the AI tells it to use a different voice - I think this is how it works).

Motorcycle related. In the VRRA discussion page on facebook (which anyone can join), we've been getting really dumb questions, like "What tools do you use to keep your vintage motorcycle on track?", and when you look at the username, it's clearly some sort of AI bot trying to educate itself. I intentionally give really dumb answers that any human would see through. If you ask "the internet" how to measure and set piston to cylinder clearances and "the internet" tells you to use a tape measure, blame me.
 
GreyGhost said:
I prefer to put in the piston without rings and then pour molten lead in on top. Remove the piston and measure the thickness of the lead. /s
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I prefer to completely disregard size and use a sledgehammer to make them fit no matter what. Use some KY Jelly to assist.
 
Just make it harder to get a faking license. I'm tired of hearing that it's a privilege and not a right, but then bestow the privilege on anyone that asks. It is absolutely insane that you're safer in a pressurized cylinder, 30,000 feet in the air while traveling at 700km/h than you are on the ground doing 50km/h.
 
ifiddles said:
Tons of side streets in my subdivision have been reduced to 40 recently...just an observation...
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We have 30kph zones in my hood.

I have NO idea why councillors and municipal leaders that make these decisions to reduce speed limits even more seem to think that it will accomplish jack - chronic speeders don't give a **** about signs to begin with, it's not like if they regularly do 90 through a 60 zone that changing it to a 40 zone will somehow magically prevent these people from still doing 90 through them.

In my area they seem to be doing anything to try to reduce speed short of actually getting the police to do random speed enforcement to make people think that there might actually be consequences for their actions. Instead, in the last 10 years, they've reduced speed limits, put in all sorts of stupid unnecessary stop signs, added bolted to the road signs that narrow the road in spots, and all sorts of other annoying stuff that does virtually *nothing* to solve the problem.
 
PrivatePilot said:
We have 30kph zones in my hood.

I have NO idea why councillors and municipal leaders that make these decisions to reduce speed limits even more seem to think that it will accomplish jack - chronic speeders don't give a **** about signs to begin with, it's not like if they regularly do 90 through a 60 zone that changing it to a 40 zone will somehow magically prevent these people from still doing 90 through them.

In my area they seem to be doing anything to try to reduce speed short of actually getting the police to do random speed enforcement to make people think that there might actually be consequences for their actions. Instead, in the last 10 years, they've reduced speed limits, put in all sorts of stupid unnecessary stop signs, added bolted to the road signs that narrow the road in spots, and all sorts of other annoying stuff that does virtually *nothing* to solve the problem.
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The road narrowing signs do slow down many drivers. I have found that many of the "traffic calming measures (speed humps and signs to narrow lanes) cause half the drivers to drop to 10 km/h and the other half barely changes what they were doing. Take that environment. Having the entire column of vehicles start and stop 10 times more often will emit more emissions than all the solar panels a municipality installs will ever save.
 
Very few people around here slow down for the narrow signs thing, particularly once they've shot through them a few times and realize that they're not as close as they think they are and then just start driving fast again.

Speed humps work, but they're annoying as **** for those who *are* still actually doing a reasonable speed and need to slow down even more as a result.

It's the endless stop signs that they think "calms traffic" that infuriate me. There's on road that I drive regularly (for the last 25 years) going to/from basically anywhere - about 4km long, there used to be 1 stop sign. Now there's about 6, 4 of them being completely unnecessary. The worst offenders barely stop to begin with and then floor it and rocket (at ludicrous speed) to the next one.
 
PrivatePilot said:
The worst offenders barely stop to begin with and then floor it and rocket (at ludicrous speed) to the next one.
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I floored it off a green yesterday coming home and random driver in opposing traffic who missed the advance left tried to sneak a turn in front of me (and others). I lightly braked and let him go but his face was priceless...hopefully that corrects his bad decisions in the future.
 
Evoex said:
I floored it off a green yesterday coming home and random driver in opposing traffic who missed the advance left tried to sneak a turn in front of me (and others). I lightly braked and let him go but his face was priceless...hopefully that corrects his bad decisions in the future.
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That sneaky left is explicitly in 172 legislation.
 
Evoex said:
I floored it off a green yesterday coming home and random driver in opposing traffic who missed the advance left tried to sneak a turn in front of me (and others). I lightly braked and let him go but his face was priceless...hopefully that corrects his bad decisions in the future.
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Probably won’t, those sorts of people are the same ones who would probably furious in this situation because you “cut him off”.
 
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