Posted on 04/30/2015 12:44:10 PM PDT by bt_dooftlook
Beginning March 31, 2018, all new vehicles sold in the European Union will be required to carry an emergency call system that automatically dispatches assistance to the scene of a crash.
The "auto SOS" system, dubbed eCall, was approved by European Parliament yesterday after two years of debate over privacy concerns, reports BBC News. In the event of a crash, the device calls the E.U.'s 911 equivalent (112) and transmits to authorities important information including location, time, and number of passengers in the vehicle. An in-car button will also be installed in all vehicles. The eCall requirement will add an estimated $100 to the price of a car.
Each year nearly 26,000 people are killed in the E.U. by car crashes. This new device is estimated to reduce that number by 10 percent, saving 2,600 lives annually, by cutting down emergency response time by as much as 60 percent.
:-). My dad always had a spare fan belt and the big stick he used to stretch it over the pulleys. The only time I remember being towed was when a second one snapped before he had the chance to buy a replacement. No vampires though.
With an air cooled rear engine, when the fan belt broke you had to get the engine turned off pretty quickly.
You want tech headaches? I bought one of those Durango 95 sports cars with the Richard Bachman-level AI.
The thing keeps claiming its frame hurts beacause there are six people in the car when it’s only me. It mocks me when I use the GPS, saying,”an elephant never forgets an address”. The ‘Go gets nervous in bad neighborhoods and abandons me to hoof it home alone. And finally, it gets drunk on E15 gas and starts weaving in front of cops because it thinks it’s funny.
There’s more than 1 reason I own a ‘55 chevy.
CC
I wonder how much longer they’ll allow the vintage car work-around.
No thanky.
YOU ARE FINED 5 CREDITS FOR REPEATED VIOLATION OF THE VERBAL MORALITY STATUTE.
And we all thought it was just a stupid movie...
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