BRUSSELS OPENS NEGOTIATIONS WITH EUROPEAN AND ASIAN CARMAKERS OVER ECALL INSTALLATION
September 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to open negotiations with European and Asian automobile manufacturing associations to press for all major car-makers to install the pan-European in-vehicle emergency communications system eCall. Brussels wants this to become a standard option in all new cars from 2010, as way of kick starting a system it values highly and has promoted enthusiastically, but whose take up has been anaemic. EU information society Commissioner Viviane Reding said: "If we are serious about saving lives on European roads, then all 27 ...
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