States Across America Are Taking Action to Stop 'Super Speeders' - a small percentage of drivers who contribute to fatal crashes at 3-5 times the average | Streetsblog USA

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The bills would require the worst of the worst drivers to at least adhere to the speed limit . . .

Legislators in 18 states and counting have either passed, introduced, or signaled their commitment to pursue a "Stop Super Speeders" bill, which would mandate the installation of active "Intelligent Speed Assist" technology on any vehicles registered to a driver with a track record of specific deadly driving offenses. Researchers say that technology, which automatically senses local limits and throttles cars to those speeds, would reduce road deaths between 26 and 50 percent if it were mandatory on all vehicles in America . . .

Even if only the worst of the worst drivers used such speed governors, though, that could still take a huge chunk out of America's traffic violence epidemic, which claimed the lives of 40,901 people in 2023 alone — roughly one-third of which died in crashes involving a speeding driver.

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States Across America Are Taking Action to Stop 'Super Speeders' - a small percentage of drivers who contribute to fatal crashes at 3-5 times the average | Streetsblog USA