EU WANTS CARS FITTED WITH AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY CALL FROM 2015
June 1st, 2013
THE EXECUTIVE body of the European Union (EU), the European Commission proposed today (Wednesday) a new regulation that would make it mandatory for car makers to ensure that all new cars put on the EU market after October 2015 are fitted with automatic emergency services call systems. The service would automatically call the European ‘eCall’ emergency number 112 in case of a serious crash once the airbags system is activated – this routes calls to local emergency services in all 27 EU member states.“Thanks to eCall, emergency response time would be ...
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