{"id":599254,"date":"2023-11-27T22:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/should-cars-have-built-in-speed-limits-some-think-its-time\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:22:02","slug":"should-cars-have-built-in-speed-limits-some-think-its-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/should-cars-have-built-in-speed-limits-some-think-its-time\/","title":{"rendered":"#Should cars have built-in speed limits? Some think it\u2019s time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that all new automobiles come equipped with technology<\/a> meant to make speeding difficult or impossible, a move that comes after an accident in Las Vegas killed nine people.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second such recommendation from the NTSB in six years, but road safety advocates are not optimistic about the technology\u2019s adoption despite speed being a common factor in auto fatalities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Intelligent speed assistance technology, or ISA, uses GPS and sign recognition to prevent vehicles from exceeding the speed limit in a given zone. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s been met by auto manufacturers with little enthusiasm, and the recommendation has not yet been adopted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<\/p>\n

Last year, more than 12,000 people in the U.S. died in speeding-related crashes. Hundreds of thousands more were injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lots of things we can tweak that make crashes less likely and lethal, but one of the most powerful things we can do is slow cars,\u201d said Isabella Chu, associate director of the data core at the Stanford Center for Population Health Science<\/a>s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said in a news<\/a> release this month that the accident in Las Vegas in 2022, in which four children were among the nine people killed when a car travel<\/a>ing more than 100 mph hit a minivan, was one of many that had informed the NTSB\u2019s new recommendation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis crash is the latest in a long line of tragedies we\u2019ve investigated where speeding and impairment led to catastrophe,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut it doesn\u2019t have to be this way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Intelligent speed assistance technology differs from traditional speed-limiting devices in that there isn\u2019t a flat speed cap. The limiting effect takes into account the speed limit of where a person is driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The technology was one of several recommendations the NTSB made to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, as well as all 50 states and the major domestic auto manufacturers. The NTSB said a final report regarding these recommendations will be published in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear when or if these recommendations will be implemented. <\/p>\n

Sarah Sulick, public affairs specialist for the NTSB, noted that the board does not have regulatory or enforcement powers and that it initially recommended incentivizing intelligent speed assistance technology to the\u00a0National Highway Traffic Safety Administration back in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The status of that recommendation, even now that it\u2019s been reiterated, is listed as \u201cnon-urgent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In March 2022, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a request for public comment on whether intelligent speed assistance technology should be included in its new car assessment program, which gives safety labels to new vehicles.<\/p>\n

More than a year and a half later, the agency is still reviewing public comments and developing \u201ca final decision notice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Automobile manufacturers also seem lukewarm on adopting the technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile vehicle technology can play a role, we\u2019ve advocated for a continued emphasis on transportation policies that focus on driver education and awareness,\u201d the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents the vast majority of domestic auto manufacturers, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some activists don\u2019t think education and awareness go far enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n

David Zipper, a visiting fellow at Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School whose work focuses on transportation policy and society and who recently wrote an op-ed<\/a> in defense of intelligent speed assistance technology, told NBC News \u201cthe app<\/a>roaches we\u2019ve had for decades aren\u2019t working.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNagging people to abide by speeding laws only works once in a while,\u201d he said. \u201cA more natural place to focus is on car design.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zipper said there\u2019s no reason for anyone to travel more than 20 mph over the speed limit on any road, and the dangers associated with that kind of speeding are avoidable \u201cif we install this well-known technology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chu said there are many ways to make automobiles safer, such as revolutionizing road design to prioritize the safety of human beings above motor vehicles.<\/p>\n

But since that doesn\u2019t seem likely soon, she sees speed-limiters as a \u201cgood interim solution while roads are redesigned for safety.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeeding is implicated in about 30% of road deaths, so that\u2019s tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries every year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Despite the bleak prospect of intelligent speed assistance becoming law in the near future, Chu remains optimistic that\u00a0automobiles can be made safer for people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is reason to have hope,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

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