#new-york-policy

#new-york-policy

The governor's auto insurance agenda is going to make it worse, because it's going to weaken protections for injured people like myself, and it's giving insurance even more leverage to lowball people like me," George Edwards told Streetsblog.

New York City motorists with a documented pattern of excessive speeding would be required to install speed-limiting devices inside their cars under a proposed pilot that Gov. Hochul will include in her state budget - a move that takes passage of the long-sought initiative out of the legislative process where it has consistently been thwarted by pro-car lawmakers. If it's successful, the program could be expanded to municipalities across New York to keep recidivist reckless drivers at the speed limit.