Private vehicles in India will soon
come fitted with a GPS-based speed-limiting device - already in use
abroad where it is called Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) system -
designed to prevent motorists from breaching legal speed limits.
Once
made mandatory by the government, automobile manufacturers will have to
kit out vehicles with the device on the factory floor before selling
them to buyers.
The Union road transport and highway
ministry has been testing the device over the last six months on
accident-prone stretches in several cities with encouraging results.
The
device was tested on the roads of Delhi and Gurgaon, where
over-speeding is second nature to motorists and high-speed road crashes
are routine, last month.
From the driver's seat, the device looks like this. Mounted at a
suitable place on the dashboard, it looks like any GPS satellite
navigation system or satnav.
The device is fed by its manufacturer with a detailed road map of a city or place with the legal speed limit on each road.
India accounts for 10 per cent of
the global road accident fatalities and attempts to enforce basic road
safety regulations to tame rogue drivers have terribly failed.
So
the road transport and highway ministry is now keen to adopt the
next-generation technological solution over deploying more traffic
policemen and making penalties steeper to make the country's roads
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