Biden Admin Recommends Mandatory Tech to Control Your Vehicle
President Joe Biden’s National Transportation Safety Board is pushing for regulations mandating technology that automatically lowers the speed of all new cars.
The technology, known as “intelligent speed assistance,” tracks vehicle locations and matches them with the corresponding speed limits, the NTSB said in a Nov. 14 news release.
At the very least, the agency is advocating for ISA systems that issue warnings to speeding drivers, but the technology also can make it increasingly challenging or impossible to go over the speed limit.
“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,” the agency said in the release.
Jennifer Homendy, Biden’s NTSB chairwoman, said in a statement, “We know the key to saving lives is redundancy, which can protect all of us from human error that occurs on our roads. What we lack is the collective will to act on NTSB safety recommendations.”
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— Jennifer Homendy (@JenniferHomendy) November 18, 2023
The NTSB cannot craft regulations but recommends them to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, according to TechCrunch.
The agency made eight recommendations, including for the NHTSA to “[r]equire ISA systems that, at a minimum, warn a driver a vehicle is speeding” and for 17 automobile manufacturers to implement the analogous technological function into every new car.
“Eliminating speeding through the implementation of a comprehensive strategy is a priority for the NTSB,” the release said.
The NTSB said there were more than 12,000 lethal car collisions related to speeding in 2021, accounting for around one-third of traffic deaths.
“NHTSA always welcomes the NTSB’s input and carefully reviews it — especially when considering potential regulatory actions,” an NHTSA representative told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Kyle Vogt, head of General Motors’ Cruise self-driving division, left the company on Sunday, according to CNN. He apologized to Cruise’s staff on Saturday for accidents that caused the NHTSA to launch an investigation into the company.
A pedestrian experienced critical injuries after a human-driven car collided with an autonomous Cruise vehicle that subsequently trapped and dragged the person for about 20 feet in San Francisco in October, according to CNN. This was one of the accidents that led to the NHTSA investigation.
The NHTSA requested public comments on the topic of adding ISA to new car assessments and how robust the technology should be, the representative told the DCNF.
The agency is still evaluating the comments and working on its ultimate decision.
The NTSB pointed the DCNF to a report asserting that ISA potentially could have reduced the damage of a Las Vegas crash that led to nine deaths in 2022.
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