Public Advocate Williams asks about speed enforcement technology

I did have one question as I end this, and this may have been answered where I was going, but I know there is an issue that we don't have the technology to know when folks are speeding on mopeds and bicycles.

So how do we determine that when we want to enforce

speeding regulations.

So I think we're referring to is the dynamometer issue we were talking about earlier.

To be clear, the challenge is being able to determine what the maximum speed is of, let's say, an e-bike.

I want to be clear about the question.

So if I think someone is

speeding on a, well a moped, many of them shouldn't be on it, but like an electric bike that's going too fast, how do we know that if it's going too fast?

I believe you don't know.

Okay, so on the speed end, how we currently enforce speeding, there's two ways.

First, we have a device called LIDAR, that's L-I-D-A-R.

I apologize, I don't, it's acronym, I don't have the whole,

That is used just like the high, it's similar to what the highway officers use on the highway.

It's pointed towards the device itself and it's able to record speed.

The other way is that officer has to tickle it, essentially saying,

Based on my own professional experience, I can determine that this vehicle, this particular device was going at a certain speed because near misses.

You know, we had pedestrians jump out of the way, that type of thing, or I was in my...

Just to be clear, right, so you have situations where there's reckless driving.

The person may well, in fact, be going way over the speed limit.

We may not be able to capture that in terms of a number, but to the extent they're operating their device, again, this is true for anyone, right?

This would be true for a driver of a four-wheeled vehicle, traditional bicycle, micromobility device, whatever it may be.

If someone is driving recklessly, irrespective of the speed, right, they're subject to a summons.

And then separately, there are circumstances where we have the technology to assess the speed at which a device...

Actually is operating.

What we cannot do, we do not have technology to

to assess what is the maximum speed of a particular device.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Just for clarity, there is a device now that you can use, and then you use the experience of officers to see if someone is speeding.

That is correct.

Thank you.