New National Survey Shows Overwhelming Support for Truck Safety Requirements
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Road Safe America recently released the results of a national survey showing that voters across the United States strongly support the required use of two existing safety technologies in large trucks, speed limiters and automatic emergency braking. Road Safe America today released the results of a national survey showing that voters across the U.S. strongly support the required use of two existing safety technologies in large trucks, speed limiters and automatic emergency braking. |
The survey, by McLaughlin & Associates, of likely general election voters nationwide was conducted Sept. 18-24, 2018 and has an accuracy of +/- 3.1 percent. Results from the survey show:
- 79 percent of voters favor speed limiters set at a maximum speed of 65 miles per hour for large trucks, 45 percent strongly favor it and only 13 percent oppose it.
- 82 percent of voters favor automatic emergency braking on large trucks, 50 percent strongly favor it and just 9 percent oppose it.
