speed limiters for reckless drivers

Momentum is growing for the use of intelligent speed assistance to address the speeding crisis on our roadways. FSS member Tiffany May shares her story for the first time about her survival of a six-vehicle crash in Nevada that killed nine people in January of last year. Seven were members of a single family who were riding together in a minivan, including four brothers younger than 18.

She was just a few minutes from home in North Las Vegas when a car came flying into an intersection at more than 100 miles an hour and crashed into hers. "I remember getting hit, the sound of broken glass," May said. "I remember seeing fire. And thinking, if I didn't get out, my dog and I were gonna die right then."

Federal regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration could require automakers to add speed assistance technology, as their counterparts in Europe did. NHTSA is considering that possibility through a rule-making process it started last year, but no decisions have been issued. We need our leaders to act at the federal level and our local leaders to pass the bills to install ISA in the vehicles of reckless drivers in NYS and Washington, DC.