Perspective
California’s Anti-Speeding Bill Can Be a Traffic Safety Breakthrough
The state passed a bill mandating new car technology that warns drivers who exceed the speed limit. But ‘intelligent speed assistance’ still faces one final hurdle.
Drivers on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles.
Photographer: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The pain of losing a child in a traffic crash is indescribable.
After my 12-year-old son Sammy was killed in 2014 by a driver who was racing to beat a red light, the grief was so intense I wasn’t sure I could go on living.