Support Safe Vehicles
The role that vehicle design and technologies play in avoiding or mitigating the harm of crashes cannot be overstated. As vehicles get larger and heavier and their ability to accelerate increases, safety technology to mitigate their dangers becomes even more essential.
STOP SUPER SPEEDERS
Speeding is one of the leading causes of preventable traffic deaths in the U.S., with nearly 12,000 lives lost in 2023 alone. Repeat offenders—“super speeders”—pose the greatest danger, and traditional penalties often fail to stop them.
Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) technology can prevent vehicles from exceeding speed limits, intervening before crashes happen and protecting drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists alike.
Families for Safe Streets has championed the use of ISA, helping pass legislation in Virginia, Washington, and D.C., with additional bills under consideration in dozens of other states. Our goal is simple: no family should have to lose a loved one to preventable speeding.
Learn more & take action today:
Read the full white paper.
Watch a demonstration of the technology in action.
Read more to see our bill tracker & watch our webinars
Use our national Fact Sheet to gain support & sign the petition urging that a bill pass in your state.
Safer Fleets Challenge
Around the country, local governments are joining the Safer Fleets Challenge and taking steps to retrofit their fleets with intelligent speed assistance. Families for Safe Streets has joined with America Walks and others to get 50 local governments to adopt ISA by 2025 — because government workers, operating government vehicles, should be following government speed limits. As part of the federal government’s commitment to eliminate traffic deaths on our roadways, the federal government should be leading the way and installing ISA in all 600,000 non-emergency federal vehicles.
American cities including New York City are already piloting the most effective type of ISA technology in their city fleets with tremendous results. An independent evaluation by the Volpe Center found that 500 municipal fleet vehicles equipped with ISA technology have driven 2.9 million miles and reduced speeding by 64% compared to the control group. In addition, there was a 36% reduction in hard braking events in vehicles equipped with ISA. Hard braking indicates unsafe driving habits, including speeding and tailgating.
Check out the video demonstration to see the technology in action.
Organizations can sign on in support on our coalition letter
and promote on social media.