New "speed limiter devices" for cars will finally pressure reckless drivers in New York to slow down if a proposed state law manages to pass. The new devices would be forced into the cars of around 3,000 chronic speeders with multiple violations by limiting how fast their car can be driven using GPS technology.
The price for the units stands at $1,000 a piece under the proposed law. Various other states have tried different measures to tackle the problem of speeding, with Florida pushing for a "super speeder" law while Maryland used speed cameras across the state.
“This technology does work,” Sen. Andrew Gounardes, a co-sponsor of the so-called Stop Super Speeders Act, told The New York Post during a demonstration of the tech.
He added that for "a small stubborn subset of drivers, there is no adequate remedy" to speeding, explaining how the city's own top 10 super speeders were caught on more than 2,700 speed cameras last year alone, as per the data collected by Transportation Alternatives.
The motivation for this bill stems from various speeding incidents leading to tragic accidents in the city, including a horrendous Brooklyn car crash on Ocean Parkway that occurred earlier this year, and claimed the lives of a mother and her two children.
Drivers who incur 16 or more speed camera tickets in a year, and those who rack up 11 or more points on their license in 18 months, will have to comply to this measure and install the devices if the bill gets passed.
Court orders for the tech will apply to bad drivers, not vehicles—and those found driving a vehicle without a speed limiter will be held in contempt of court, New York Post reported. A judge could offer some "leeway", with a 5 mph buffer between a posted speed limit and a device's maximum speed setting.
The technology will also be designed to automatically adjust speed caps when entering areas with different speed limits, such as highways.
The device is meant to permit speedsters to perform their daily tasks while ensuring that safer driving habits are formed, Assemblymember Robert Carroll explained.
Similar measures to curb speeding have already been implemented in Washington and Virginia, along with a massively successful 2022 pilot program for New York City’s own municipal fleet.
A legislative push for this proposed measure has already been approved in the state Senate in 2024.
Gounardes hopes for the bill to pass in the House as well.
“We need to do something different we need to do something outside the box,” he said. “If we can stop even 1,000 or 2,000 of the most dangerous vehicles in our city…then we can save lives.”
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