Yisroel R.

New York City will install new pedestrian-warning and speed-limiting technology across its municipal vehicle fleet under an executive order signed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The order requires the Department of Citywide Administrative Services to retrofit roughly 4,000 existing non-emergency city vehicles with audible pedestrian alerts by June 2029. The alerts will activate with a vehicle’s turn signals, warning pedestrians, cyclists and other road users when preparing to turn.

All future purchases or leases of non-emergency city vehicles and trucks will also be required to include intelligent speed assistance, a system that limits acceleration when a vehicle goes beyond the local speed limit or other road violations.

The city has already installed the speed-limiting technology in 1,000 vehicles across 21 agencies. Those vehicles have traveled more than eight million miles since the program began in 2022, with dangerous speeding among equipped vehicles dropping by 64 percent.

"Our administration expects every driver to do their part to keep our streets safe for everyone, and that begins with those behind the wheel of our City vehicles," said Mayor Mamdani. "Pedestrian alerts and speed-limiting technology deliver immediate results, and we can waste no time in keeping our neighbors safe."

The new requirements will apply only to non-emergency municipal vehicles and trucks. City officials said the expansion is intended to reduce speeding and prevent crashes involving pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.

New York City currently operates more than 29,000 municipal vehicles and has installed over 105,000 safety upgrades throughout the fleet in recent years, including truck side guards, backup alerts and surround-view cameras.