Summary
This proposal updates EU vehicle safety rules to better protect passengers and vulnerable road users like cyclists. It introduces advanced safety technologies while ensuring strict data privacy. 10 04.10.2021
Other
transport
public safety
information technology and data processing
Key points
- The definition of vulnerable road users is expanded to include people on electric scooters and other motorized personal transport devices.
- New requirements for advanced safety systems, including emergency braking and lane-keeping assistance, are introduced.
- Accident data recorders must be equipped to collect only anonymized data to protect driver privacy.
- Heavy vehicles must be designed to improve driver visibility and reduce dangerous blind spots.
Documents (PDFs)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on type-approval requirements for motor vehicles and their trailers, and systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, as regards their general safety and the protection of vehicle occupants and vulnerable road users, amending Regulation (EU) 2018/.... and repealing Regulations (EC) No 78/2009, (EC) No 79/2009 and (EC) No 661/2009
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