COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS ESSENTIAL BEFORE MAKING ADAS MANDATORY, SAY EXPERTS

AUTOMATIC driver assistance systems (ADAS) for vehicles should only be obligatory if they aid road safety, automobile experts told wardsauto this week, as the issue is considered during an ongoing review of European Union (EU) automobile safety rules. The EU’s executive body, the European Commission, is currently revising the 28 country bloc’s regulation on type-approval requirements for the general safety of motor vehicles (EC No 661/2009). And the issue has also been debated by the European Parliament, which last November (2017) called for the compulsory ...


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