A gaggle of New York lawmakers need to mandate velocity limiters for the vehicles of serial speeders, The New York Every day Information just lately reported.

Drivers with a number of speed-camera violations can be ordered to put in aftermarket velocity limiters of their automobiles, beneath a invoice proposed within the New York State legislature Tuesday by two legislators representing New York Metropolis’s Brooklyn borough.

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Senator Andrew Gounardes, who’s sponsoring the invoice within the New York Senate, mentioned in an interview with the Every day Information that fines do not function a big consequence for rushing, including {that a} “cohort of drivers” proceed to rack up a number of rushing violations.

The proposed various is a velocity limiter that will forestall vehicles from touring not more than 5 mph above the posted velocity restrict. The invoice requires putting in these gadgets in vehicles which were flagged with six or extra speed-camera violations.

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In New York State, speed-camera violations don’t include driver’s license factors, because the automated system cannot show who’s driving. Drivers who’re stopped by police can obtain factors on their licenses for rushing along with fines. State regulation permits for licenses to be suspended if a driver accumulates 11 factors in 18 months, however that is not necessary. Beneath the proposed invoice, velocity limiters would even be put in within the vehicles of drivers who accumulate 11 factors however haven’t got their licenses suspended.

This is not the one proposal to restrict velocity in New York. In 2022, legislators proposed becoming each automotive manufactured or registered within the state with a system known as Energetic Clever Velocity Help (ISA) that will use GPS and visitors signal recognition to find out the velocity restrict—and forestall drivers from exceeding it. That invoice didn’t advance past the New York Senate Guidelines Committee.