Improving car safety: reversing assistants will be mandatory from July
Created: 06/21/2022, 14:20
For more safety on the roads.
From July, new vehicle types must be equipped with additional assistance systems.
© Christin Klose/dpa-tmn
They beep, give visual warnings or brake: assistance systems in cars. The electronic helpers will soon be required by law according to the EU car regulation.
Munich - The EU car regulation has a long name:
"Regulation on the type approval of motor vehicles and motor vehicle trailers as well as systems, components and separate technical units for these vehicles with regard to their general safety and the protection of vehicle occupants and vulnerable road users.
It came into force almost three years ago and is to apply to all new type-approved passenger cars in the EU from July 6, 2022
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Assistance systems such as speed assistant, reversing assistant or lane departure warning are set.
From July 2024, all newly registered passenger cars must have the assistance systems in order to receive vehicle approval.
Car safety: convert your car because of new regulations?
In order to keep their vehicle permit, car owners do not have to convert or upgrade their existing fleet.
The EU car regulation primarily affects manufacturers.
They have to install the assistance systems accordingly in all future car models.
The aim of the EU car regulation is to ensure more safety on the roads and fewer deaths on the road.
According to the EU Commission, driver assistance systems are largely responsible for the reduction in accidents.
In the last ten years, the number of road deaths in the EU has fallen by more than a third.
These assistance systems will be available in all new cars from July 2024
Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA: Intelligent Speed Assistance)
emergency braking assistant
Emergency Lane Departure Warning
Device for installing an alcohol immobilizer
Fatigue Detection
Seat belt warning system
reversing assistant
black box
More car safety through assistance systems, but beeps can also be annoying
For years, racing legend and ex-rally world champion Walter Röhrl was skeptical about forced happiness, but today considers some systems to be "extremely useful because they are a real safety gain, especially for inexperienced and insecure drivers," writes
Kleinezeitung.at
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However, Röhrl warns against a veritable exaggeration of the features by the manufacturers.
"Especially older road users are overwhelmed with the multitude of assistants, the constant warning messages and the tinkling and beeping are more a curse than a blessing."
