All new vehicles sold in Europe – including Northern Ireland but not Great Britain – will be required from now on to have intelligent speed assistance technology installed.

From 7 July 2024, every vehicle sold in the EU and Northern Ireland will need to be fitted with a range of technical safety features as standard. The most notable of these is the Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA) or speed limiter.

Those vehicles already registered or in circulation are exempt, but any existing unregistered cars on forecourts will have to be retrofitted with a speed limiter before they can be sold.

This ISA mandate comes after the European Commission’s legislation that made it a legal requirement for all new vehicles sold in Europe to be fitted with a speed limiter from 6 July 2022.

The difference is that while drivers of most new cars with this feature were able to override it and simply turn it off, it is now impossible to permanently turn it off as it restarts each time the engine does.

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