New, great step forward for road safety: from 6 July on all “new homologation” cars, the speed limiter becomes mandatory. Obligation that then from 7 July 2024 will apply for all cars of “new registration”.
Translated, it means that now it will no longer be possible to put new models on the market, never seen before, without this device (but that the old ones already on the market may still not have it), while from 2024 it will no longer be possible to register any cars. without the speed limiter.
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The system, already present on many cars for years, is none other than Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA), a safety device that determines the speed to be taken at any time, based on the information received fromto a camera and the GPS system that in its digital “map” has marked all the limits.
The system sends a signal on the dashboard indicating the limit and can also interact with the cruise control system by braking the car by itself and effectively preventing you from exceeding the limit established by the highway code at that point of the route.
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The ISA, as it happens today, it can be deactivated by the driverbut from 2024 this will no longer be possible, and this obviously will have to involve a different strategy in setting the speed limits that today many road managers use only to avoid incriminations related to lack of maintenance or other: currently the system is in fact unusable because when the car – for example on a highway – travels at 90 times and meets a signal set without too much criteria with the limit of 30, the car stops suddenly, making dangerous rear-end collisions possible.
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However, there will be time to fine-tune the systemalso because the manufacturers’ association is clamoring to make the ISA deactivable even after 2024. And it is not a subtlety: if the system cannot be deactivated, in fact it will become impossible for every car to go beyond 130 in Italy , effectively killing the high-end car market.
The battle is open, but now the fake news that speed does not affect the number of deaths and injuries is now defeated forever: consequently it becomes increasingly difficult to challenge this type of rule. Stefano Guarnieri, president of the Lorenzo Guarnieri Association, one of the most aggressive in terms of road safety, explains it well here. But the famous 2019 study by ETSC (the European Institute for Transport Safety) has definitively explained it according to which lowering the limits of 10 km per hour would save two thousand lives a year in Europe.
There is a huge end goal at stake: get to zero fatalities on the roads. A feasible dream, even if – at least in Italy – still far away given that we are currently at 9 deaths a day from road accidents.