| Speed Management
As the EU moves to mandate Intelligent Speed Assistance in all
new vehicles from 2022, James Gordon asks whether promised
safety benefits will materialize, if such technology could help to
reduce congestion and whether it could, one day, make speed
enforcement redundant UnbreakableThere have only been
a handful of moments in
the last 50 years that could be
described as big leaps
forward for road safety in Europe,”
said Antonio Avenoso, who heads the
European Safety Council, while
Brake, a leading UK road safety
charity, called it “a landmark day for
road safety”.
Both were referring to speed
reduction technology, which is to
become a mandatory requirement in
all new vehicles from 2022.
Intelligent Speed Assistance
technology (ISA) and a raft of other
measures including (but not limited
to) advanced emergency braking and
intelligent lane keeping systems is
part of the EU’s Vision Zero plan,
which aims to eliminate all road
traffic deaths by 2050. However, the
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