Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB-961 on Saturday. If the bill had been signed into law, it would have required every vehicle built, sold, or leased in the state to be equipped with a passive intelligent speed assistance system by the 2030 model year. The bill defined such systems as … Read more
Photo: Franz Marc Frei (Getty Images) In developed countries all over the world, driving continues to get safer. The one exception to that rule is the United States, where driving continues to get more dangerous. Unfortunately, there are so many factors that make drivers in the U.S. more dangerous, there’s no silver bullet that will … Read more
Photo: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto (Getty Images) Washington D.C. could be headed to a drastic reimagining of what road safety looks like. The D.C. Council passed a $77 million traffic legislative package that will allow the District to install speed governors in vehicles of drivers convicted of serious speeding crimes. The bill would also grant powers to punish … Read more
It doesn’t take much more than half a brain to understand that we have a serious problem with speed on U.S. roadways. It takes slightly more grey matter than that to understand that a lot of this problem is caused by a refusal of many American drivers to take responsibility for their actions and the … Read more
