EU proposes emergency 'tracker' for all new cars by 2015

mb1725

The EU wants an eCall system to be fitted to all new cars and light vehicles from 2015 which willl track and communicate the vehicle's location "for emergency purposes". More EU interference in to personal freedom?

http://ec.europa.eu/ireland/press_office/news_of_the_day/emergency-call-system-for-road-accidents_en.htm

Cookie_Monster

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Atomic Pineapple

Good as an optional extra but legally required? That's going a bit far!

keithclancy

draffodx wrote: »

Good as an optional extra but legally required? That's going a bit far!

I'm sure they said the same about Seat Belts back in the day.

I think its a good idea, relatively cheap (should be anyway) and saves peoples lives since the first hour is the most critical.

n900guy

mb1725 wrote: »

More EU interference in to personal freedom?

More?

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News to me!

seamus

Just before the scaremongering starts, this is not a "tracking" system. It activates with the airbag and then relays your location to the emergency service when it makes the call.

Having an in-built system which "tracked" you would require your vehicle to maintain an open connection to an as-yet nonexistent service which recorded that information on an ongoing basis. It would require hundreds of millions of euros worth of infrastructure to be built by the government. Any such tracking system could easily be bypassed by the user.

So it's not going to be used to track you, or tell the gubberment when you break a speed limit.

The most offensive thing this could do is maintain a local record of the five minutes leading up to the collision to assist accident investigators. Which wouldn't be a bad thing IMO.

Boardmaster

Could they not track you through your phone already if you downloaded some sort of app?

Zubeneschamali

n900guy wrote: »

News to me!

You didn't know about the EU black helicopters following you around everywhere?

Benny-c

Shhhhhh! Don't tell the Guys on Conspiracy Theories!!