The National Transportation Safety Board first recommended speed limiter technology in 1995.
Deaths increased by an unprecedented 18.4% during the first six months of 2021 compared with 2020, according to federal statistics. That’s after they rose 7% to 38,680 in 2020 from 36,096 in 2019, while vehicle miles traveled declined by 13% over the same period.
The National Transportation Safety Board first recommended speed limiters in 1995, and added it to itsThe motor carrier administration did not propose a maximum speed for trucks, saying that would wait until the proposed rule was drafted sometime next year. The agency also said it would act on its own without the highway traffic safety administration.
“It’s really tragic when you think about the lives lost since 2016 that would have been saved with the technology,” said Peter Kurdock, general counsel for Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of consumer, health, law enforcement and insurance industry groups.Chris Spear, president and chief executive of the American Trucking Associations, welcomed what he called “a constructive, data-driven approach to the issue of truck speed limiters.
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