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Drivers with 16 speeding notices could face an in-car limiter
State budget language would let New York City launch an in-car speed limiter pilot for drivers who rack up 16 notices of liability in a year. The target is chronic speeders, not ordinary traffic mistakes, and the city would need a local law first.
In New York City, a driver who keeps piling up speeding notices could run into a new kind of restraint: an intelligent speed assistance device, or ISA device. The state budget language would authorize the city to create a demonstration program limited to drivers who have received sixteen notices of liability within a twelve-month period and then have a final decision or decisions in place.
The point is not to reach every driver who slips over the limit once or twice. It is to give the city a tool for people who keep showing the same pattern on the road.
A narrow lane for repeat speeders
The measure ties the program to a high threshold. A driver would first have to accumulate sixteen notices of liability in a year, then clear the cases through a final decision or decisions before the demonstration program could apply.
That keeps the pilot focused on chronic behavior instead of ordinary traffic mistakes. The language also says the city would be authorized and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance creating the program, so the local government would still have to write the rules around how the devices are installed and used.
Why the threshold matters
The real-world effect is simple. For people who live, walk and drive in the city, the proposal is a new attempt to answer repeated speeding with something more direct than another notice in the mail.
Because the program would be limited to New York City, it is a local fix for a local problem. It would not become a statewide mandate, and it would not change how every New York driver is treated.