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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A measure to discourage speeding is present connected Governor Gavin Newsom's desk.
SB 961 would necessitate caller cars sold successful California to beryllium equipped with "passive quality velocity assistance systems" by 2030.
The strategy would alert drivers erstwhile they are 10 miles per hr implicit the velocity limit.
Fresno begetter Joe Martinez advocated for the measure aft losing his lad to a car crash.
He says his lad Paul was crossing the thoroughfare connected June 5, 2013, erstwhile idiosyncratic deed and killed him.
"You could ne'er hide arsenic a parent. When you suffer a child, that symptom ne'er leaves," Martinez said.
He says the operator who deed his lad was going 14 miles per hr implicit the velocity limit.
"[Paul] is gone. It's truthful final, and truthful I cling connected to the anticipation that 1 time we'll beryllium reunited. As a household of faith, we clasp onto that," Martinez said.
Because of his passionateness for postulation safety, helium acted arsenic a peculiar witnesser for SB 961.
"It seems similar a truly elemental solution to a truly large problem," Patricia Rillera with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) said.
Rillera says her enactment was speedy to endorse the bill.
She believes it volition trim postulation deaths simply by alerting drivers erstwhile they’re speeding.
"It simply alerts the operator of unsafe speeding, and the small alert tin origin idiosyncratic to dilatory down. We cognize the interaction of speeding and specified successful impaired driving behaviors. It's a win," Rillera said.
The bill’s challengers reason it volition needlessly summation authorities interference. However, Rillera argues this measure is worthy the authorities interference.
