Bill Text: HI HR127 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging the United States Congress to enact legislation requiring all new vehicles manufactured in the United States to be equipped with anti-crash technology.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-14 - Referred to TRN, FIN, referral sheet 28 [HR127 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-HR127-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	127
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

urging congress to require anti-crash technology to be installed in all new vehicles manufactured in the united states.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, a research report released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that anti-crash technology could eventually prevent as many as 592,000 left-turn and intersection crashes a year, thus saving 1,083 lives; and

 

     WHEREAS, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will be drafting rules to require anti-crash technology in new vehicles; and

 

     WHEREAS, anti-crash technology uses a radio signal to continually transmit a vehicle's position, heading, speed and other information to similarly equipped vehicles operating on the roadway, allowing computers within a vehicle to alert drivers to an impending collision; and

 

     WHEREAS, anti-crash technology works up to a distance of 300 yards, and a vehicle with anti-crash technology would be able to detect when another vehicle equipped with the same technology is about to run a red light, even if that vehicle were hidden around a corner; and

 

     WHEREAS, in addition, anti-crash technology would alert the driver when a vehicle several vehicles ahead in a line of traffic has made a sudden stop, even before the brake lights of the vehicle directly in front of the driver is illuminated; and

 

     WHEREAS, requiring all new vehicles built in the United States to be equipped with anti-crash technology could lead to significant decreases in motor vehicle crashes on our country's roadways, leading to decreases in injuries and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes; now, therefore,

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2016, that the United States Congress is urged to enact legislation requiring anti-crash technology to be installed in all new vehicles manufactured in the United States; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate, and Hawaii's Congressional Delegation.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Urging the United States Congress to enact legislation requiring all new vehicles manufactured in the United States to be equipped with anti-crash technology.