Proposed CA bill would electronically restrict cars from going over speed limit

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SAN FRANCISCO (KABC) -- California Sen. Scott Wiener is introducing a caller acceptable of bills to marque streets safer crossed the state, including 1 that would alteration however you drive.

It would necessitate immoderate caller car oregon motortruck made oregon sold successful the authorities successful 2027 oregon aboriginal to person peculiar exertion installed successful the car called "speed governors." The instrumentality would marque it physically intolerable for vehicles to spell 10 miles per hr implicit the posted velocity limits.

"I don't deliberation it's astatine each an overreach, and I don't deliberation astir radical would presumption it arsenic an overreach, we person velocity limits, I deliberation astir radical enactment velocity limits due to the fact that radical cognize that velocity kills," Wiener said.

Another portion of the measurement would necessitate ample trucks to instal broadside guards to forestall pedestrians, cyclists, oregon different vehicles from getting sucked underneath the motortruck during a crash.

Sen. Wiener says the bills are "commonsense actions" to support nationalist safety.

"I deliberation if you inquire anyone, bash radical request to beryllium driving much than 10 miles an hr implicit the velocity limit, assuming you're not an exigency conveyance which are exempt from the bill, I deliberation astir radical would accidental no, I don't privation radical driving much than 10 miles an hr successful my neighborhood," helium said.

A pistillate whose parent was permanently injured portion crossing the thoroughfare successful San Francisco says she supports the change.

"It is hard to basal present wherever she suffered, wherever everything changed successful an instant, each she was doing was crossing the street," Jenny Yu, a San Francisco nonmigratory said.

"Dangerous speeding destroys lives, velocity is the fig 1 origin of terrible and fatal crashes successful San Francisco and successful California, and unsafe speeding is connected the rise. Vehicles are bigger and much almighty each day, pedestrians go guiltless carnage and collateral damage."

Wiener's 2nd measure would necessitate Caltrans to marque upgrades to crosswalks, motorcycle lanes and curb extensions connected state-owned roads to support pedestrians, cyclists and those who trust connected nationalist transit.

A akin measure was vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom successful 2019 successful bid to springiness Caltrans a accidental to bash this enactment connected its own.

But 5 years later, Wiener says helium inactive hasn't seen overmuch progress.

The bills introduced this week are expected to spell to a committee sometime successful the spring.