All of the city’s non-emergency trucks will be required to have audible turn alerts by 2029, under an executive order expected to be signed by Mayor Mamdani Thursday — and all new non-emergency vehicles will be required to have intelligent speed limiters going forward.
The order will require the installation of audio alarms that notify nearby pedestrians and cyclists when a city truck uses its turn signals.
The equipment will be required on all of the city’s roughly 4,000 non-emergency trucks, and must be installed by June 2029.
The order also codifies the ongoing rollout of computerized speed limiters on applicable municipal cars and trucks.
Keith Kerman, a deputy commissioner at the Department for Citywide Administrative Services and the head of the city’s municipal fleet, called the mayor’s order “our next big step for fleet safety.”
“Pedestrian alerts on trucks will help warn and safeguard road users when trucks are making turns in the city and the expansion of intelligent speed assistance will slow the fleet down,” Kerman said in a statement.
More than 1,000 city vehicles have already been retrofitted with the “intelligent” speed-limiting technology, which uses GPS to identify a vehicle’s location and actively keep its speed at or below the legal limit.
Requiring the tech on new, non-emergency city vehicles has been DCAS policy since last year.