This just in: California 'cool car' law may hose your iPhone reception

They could have found out that we have an alternative to making drastic changes. We have a 7-year old vehicle producing no HCs or CO and extremely low NOx per a California smog test here:
http://engineecology.com/smogtest.html

I swear, California is the most ridiculous place in America. The government, which is completely broke (and broken), somehow finds a law for everything. They are the perfect example of a babysitter state in which they feel the utter need to protect people from themselves.

Though some things they have right (medical marijuana), most of their laws are just plain stupid and a massive waste of taxpayer money.

These laws will continue until the average person is fed up with his loss of choice. Maybe we stop voting in people who want to control every minutia of our daily lives.

Say goodbye to radar detection as well - not only do those coatings block your ability to know when you're being bombarded with radar, they also are the opposite of stealth - they dramatically INCREASE your radar visibility.

Also, and I know this is a little against the Cali grain, but it IS possible that someone other than the driver of a car would need to use a phone, GPS, whatever (GASP! two people in a car, OMG!), so let's not beat up on the folks saying this is a less than optimal idea.

Sounds to me like the juice isn't worth the squeeze...especially if all the savings in energy are offset by increases at the time of manufacture and recycling of these glass panels.

Air conditioning has a non impact on Mileage, this is a myth that congress can use as propaganda to provide yet another company to profit from lobbying. If they want to get better gas mileage we need to go back to lighter and less powerfull cars like the honda civic of old. That car was only 58hp and weighed a scant 2200 pounds. Granted it could hardly get out of its own way but it got 40mph. This is like extending Daylight Savings time. It cost america Billions of dollars from reprogamming Bios on computers. But It makes some stupid congressman look good for the masses.

So basically we're going back to car phones with permanent antenna installations?

Everything old is new again.

Great! Less drivers distracted by their cell phones is a very good thing.

"2. our economy is, what, the 7th largest on the planet? No need to trade us, we can just make a go at it on our own. We'd like to take Oregon and Washington with us though."

Go for it. Don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord Split You. Without Hollywood (which would slowly dry up as it's now a foreign country) your economy will tank.

You can have Washington and Microsoft but we get Apple from you.

We can keep Oregon with Nike.

There's a lot of things I love about living in California, but this isn't one of them. I think the legislature is a little too paranoid about making laws left and right.

Loser