Biden Admin's National Transportation Safety Board considering speed limiters on all new cars

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) under incumbent President Democrat Joe Biden has again teased the consideration of implementing speed limiters in all new vehicles produced for American consumers.

The board's recommendation was reportedly spurred by an investigation into a multi-vehicle collision in North Las Vegas, NV that claimed the lives of nine people according to Muscle Cars and Trucks.

The report revealed that the board is seeking to implement Intelligent Speed Assistance Technology (ISA) into the new vehicles which uses a vehicle's GPS, cross-referenced with a database of posted speed limits and onboard cameras to ensure that vehicles maintain "safe" and legal speeds.

Reportedly the NTSB is investigating both passive and active ISA systems. As the outlet noted, a passive ISA warns a driver that they have exceeded the legal speed limit with visual, sound, and haptic feedback alerts, however, it is still up to the driver to control their speed. An active system introduces mechanisms to the vehicle that "fight" the driver's commands making it difficult, though not impossible, to exceed the speed limit, and even those that prevent exceeding the speed limit entirely.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association shared a post to X, which was of Congressman Mike Collins (R-GA) saying, "We have speed limiters out there now. They're called speed limit signs. They're enforced by Law Enforcement."

In a press release, the NTSB announced, "As a result of the investigation, the NTSB is issuing eight new and one reiterated recommendation to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, one new recommendation to states and one new recommendation to manufacturers."

"To NHTSA: 

• Require ISA systems that, at a minimum, warn a driver a vehicle is speeding.
• Educate the public about the benefits of ISA.
• Update the guidelines for state highway safety programs to include identification and tracking of repeat speeding offenders.
• Develop countermeasures to reduce repeat speeding offenses.
• Conduct research and develop guidelines to assist states in implementing ISA interlock programs for repeat speeding offenders. 
• Incentivize the adoption of ISA through, for example, the New Car Assessment Program. This recommendation is reiterated from a 2017 recommendation.

To 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia:

• ​Implement programs to identify repeat speeding offenders and measurably reduce speeding recidivism."

Landline Now reported on Jan. 2nd that as Congress has returned the topics of speed limiters and automatic emergency braking systems are on the congressional docket. They posted "What are the chances of stopping mandates of speed limiters and automatic emergency braking systems? A big opportunity to do so is stalled now in Congress."