Mandatory Speed Limit Devices Coming To All New Cars

New Bill Mandates All New Cars Have ‘Automatic Speed Limit’ Devices. The National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) urged 17 automakers to install intelligent speed-assistance technology in all new vehicles that, at a minimum, warns a driver when the vehicle is speeding.

The NTSB stated that the bureau needs intelligent speed assistance technology and countermeasures including interlock program for repeat speeding offenders. What is intelligent speed assistance technology? Here’s the definition, direct from the NTSB press release:

“Intelligent speed assistance technology, or ISA, uses a car’s GPS location compared with a database of posted speed limits and its onboard cameras to help ensure safe and legal speeds. Passive ISA systems warn a driver when the vehicle exceeds the speed limit through visual, sound, or haptic alerts, and the driver is responsible for slowing the car. Active systems include mechanisms that make it more difficult, but not impossible, to increase the speed of a vehicle above the posted speed limit and those that electronically limit the speed of the vehicle to fully prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit.”

CA State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, introduced the Speeding and Fatality Emergency Reduction on California Streets Package this week that includes a provision that would require “new vehicles sold in California” to “install speed governors, smart devices that automatically limit the vehicle’s speed to 10 miles above the legal limit.”

“These changes are a head-on attempt to tackle vehicle fatalities, which are surging across the U.S.—and especially in California—amid a rise in reckless driving since the onset of the pandemic,” a press release from Wiener’s office explained.

“A recent report from TRIP, a national transportation research group, found that traffic fatalities in California have increased by 22% from 2019 to 2022, compared to 19% for the U.S. overall. In 2022, 4,400 Californians died in car crashes.”

The bill package also “requires side under ride guards on trucks, to reduce the risk of cars and bikes being pulled underneath the truck during a crash” and “physical improvements like new crosswalks and curb extensions on state-owned surface streets to better accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, the disability community, and transit users.”

The press release argues that these changes are meant to “slash” the “California road deaths epidemic.” “The alarming surge in road deaths is unbearable and demands an urgent response,” Wiener said.

Not everyone is on board with the legislation, including social media users who expressed frustration with the plan.

This is the first step in monitoring driving habits and taxing motorists by the miles driven and time on the road. Don’t forget the kill switches from the 2021 infrastructure rule which is in all 2026 and later cars. We have one last chance to remove these stupid regulations.

If this law is enacted it’s almost guaranteed that a speed governor test will be added to the biennial smog inspection. The device will be required to be installed before allowing license registration of out of state vehicles.

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[JustinDaniels]

I would rather have dangerous freedom than controlled safety.

[oldguy]

I've told my son "If the government is enacting something 'for your safety' the government is taking more of your rights".

[Chicago]

We’re from the government, and we are here to help you.
If you are stupid, you will believe that. Wake up America!

[ShinobiTekken]

FJB and his admintration and all the new rules!

[gpalmerify]

I control my car, my car doesn't control me.

[gearmeister]

From kill switches to subdue switches? Sounds about right, thanks for your great reporting!

[audikid]

Imagine when a stalker is chasing you and following you in a car and he’s driving an old car which has no speed limit and you’re driving a new one😮

[asajayunknown]

Thanks for talking about this. My newest car is an '03. I also dont let google maps track me either. TOTALLY agree on the better drivers ed. I grew up in the Midwest. Permit at 14. Four seasons. Real license at 18. No substitute for practice

[kevingrierson]

What will all the revenue collectors do when they cannot rely on speeding tickets?

[DrEd-thlu]

The best part of being an engineer and mechanic is I can re-program any ECM and remove any infringement software. Bring it! More business for me and us modifiers. I already remove all the annoying exhaust systems.

[rickgotner]

Great opportunity for a talented mechanic to invent a workaround. A successful workaround could be worth millions to the inventor.

[speedyserbian]

That's OK. Replace the PCM or unlock it and remove the "feature". There will be a workaround. Hopefully, it doesn't come to that.

[lyndelf]

Speed limit sensors installed next thing you know the speed limits are downgraded everywhere and what used to be "HIGHWAY" speeds will now be at the discretion of Big Brother and your thanks! We're already way past gov't creeping into our lives, anything extra at this point is just a big HELL NO!

[JackBeckman]

The major problem with these systems is they can't be trusted. I have cars with the ability to read the local signs and other that only use GPS to determine the road speed. But they make a lot of mistakes. I have had the sign-reading cars see a ramp coming up and it thinks the speed limit has just dropped from 70 to 25 - I have to quickly override if I am using cruise control so I don't get rear-ended.

The GPS cars can't agree on some stretches of road near me - a couple say it's 55, another says 45, and yet another says 35 (yes, i own several cars). So which is correct? There's no signs nearby, so in theory it should be 55 here in Michigan.

So unless this tech can be made more reliable, its a bad idea.

[barrysmith]

I may be wrong but I think the German Autobahn has no speed limits (all or part of it?)
I also believe they have some of the strictest driver training and licensing.
Perhaps this would be a better approach than "speed restrictors".

[Ziegfried]

This is going to be removed by people if they implement it, regardless of the legal consequences.

[RichSmithify]

Cars don't need speed limiters; they need IQ limiters. Below 100 and they won't start.

[stardust-rvmr]

You haven't seen anything yet, wait till the speed limiters go into affect on large trucks this year, backups everywhere as trucks try to get around other slower moving vehicles.

[Aaron]

I guess the gov'ment is trying to put the auto makers out of business 😆. Folks will just keep driving their old cars for years and years and years... 🙂

[WilliamKirkland-jr]

Two issues with proposed 'over speed' laws - (1) too much government intervention into our private lives (2) dangerous - there are many times one needs a quick burst of speed to avoid personal harm. And, I agree - better driver's education could make a big difference in the manner of drivers' attention to local speed laws.