ACEA LIVE FEED - road_safety

Commission consultants: Fleet renewal schemes benefit economy and environment

2010-06-03T15:34:00Z

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European Road Safety Charter Summer Contest 2009

2009-08-25T13:55:00Z

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ACEA endorses RESPONSE Code of Practice for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

2009-08-18T14:41:00Z

The EU project ‘RESPONSE 3’ has drafted a European Code of Practice (CoP) as a guideline for the development and validation of special Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

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Member States should speed up efforts on eCall

2009-06-04T16:00:00Z

Automakers were among the very first to sign the Memorandum of Understanding for eCall, the system where a vehicle automatically alerts emergency services to the location of an accident.

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Road Safety: Delivering vehicles, policy goals and partnerships to make roads safer for all

2009-05-12T14:33:00Z

In the last 30 years, Europe’s roads have become far safer despite a three-fold increase in traffic. Huge investment in vehicle design and technology has driven down fatalities, and safety remains central to automotive product development plans.

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Directive recognises importance of making roads safer

2008-07-22T13:44:00Z

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European automobile manufacturers welcome progress made with ESC safety technology

2008-07-01T11:56:00Z

Brussels, 01/07/2008 - The European automobile manufacturers welcome the progress made in increasing consumer awareness and market take-up of ESC (electronic stability control), as highlighted today at the ‘Choose ESC’ campaign evaluation event in Brussels. Improving road safety is one of the automotive manufacturers’ key priorities and the industry is an active participant in the ‘ChooseESC’ campaign of the European Commission to explain the benefits of this life-saving technology.

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ESC event

2008-05-23T07:38:01Z

On 1 July, one year after the launch of the ChooseESC! campaign, a conference in the Autoworld in Brussels looked into the results of the campaign and the possibilities to further promote ESC.

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European Parliament calls for strengthening automotive industry competitiveness

2008-01-16T13:33:00Z

Brussels, 16/01/2008 - The European Parliament has given an important statement on the need to improve the regulatory framework for the European automotive industry, by voting in its plenary session, yesterday in Strasbourg, in favour of the report on CARS21 by the Industry Committee rapporteur Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (ALDE, Germany).

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Automobile industry concentrates joint research on mobility, road transport and competitiven

2007-11-08T12:34:00Z

Brussels, 08/11/2007 - The European automobile industry actively concentrates its research and development activities on sustainable mobility and competitiveness. This message emerged from the EUCAR Conference held today in Brussels. EUCAR, the European Council for Automotive R&D, is the research body of the European automobile manufacturers.

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Red Cross runs European testing programme for safety and first aid pack

2007-10-19T14:56:00Z

The European automobile manufacturers fully support the 4th European Road Safety Campaign, launched October 2007. ...

Open Letter

2007-09-26T01:00:00Z

We, the undersigned organisations (representing a broad range of road users, road safety organisations, public authorities, infrastructure operators and industries), welcome the proposal for a Directive on Road Infrastructure Safety Management, as being part of the “integrated approach to road safety” (linking the users, the vehicle and the infrastructure aspects) and a step in the right direction to reach the EU’s objective of halving the number of deaths on European roads by 2010.
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Working together to reduce casualties

2007-09-04T08:20:00Z

The safety of drivers, passengers, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians is a prime concern of the vehicle industry. ...

Partners in eSafety Aware

2007-09-04T07:21:00Z

A lack of awareness hinders "eSafety" in Europe.
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Road Safety Directive must be reviewed by EP Committee

2007-09-04T06:24:00Z

The European Parliament has asked its Transport Committee (Tran) to review its position on the proposed “Directive on Safe Road Infrastructure Management”, The Committee had dismissed the proposal in June with a majority of only one vote. ...

ACEA President Marchionne calls for transparent and balanced regulatory framework

2007-07-11T04:03:00Z

Strasbourg, 11/07/2007 - “A prerequisite for improving the global competitiveness of the European automotive industry is a transparent and balanced regulatory framework”
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ROAD SAFETY: EU, drivers and industry launch “eSafetyAware!” in Rome, May 8, 2007

2007-03-26T06:53:00Z

The Europe wide ‘Choose ESC!’ campaign will be launched at the Bridgestone European Testing ground near Rome on 8th May 2007. The campaign, under the patronage of European Commissioner Viviane Reding and FIA President Max Mosley, aims to raise awareness of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) and increase the take-up of this life-saving technology.
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European automobile industry signs European Road Safety Charter

2007-01-11T22:40:00Z

ACEA has signed the European Road Safety Charter in November 2006, in support of the ambitious EU community goal to reduce the number of casualties in road accidents by 50% in 2010. ...

INNOVATION: European car industry strongly focuses research efforts on environment, safety and produ

2006-11-23T03:38:00Z

Key challenges of the Automotive industry today and in the future are a limited supply of fossil fuels, environmental concerns, the need for safer road transport and shorter product life cycles. The European Automotive industry actively responds by focusing its research and development efforts on fuels and engines, integrated safety and mobility applications and materials, processes and manufacturing.
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SAFETY: European automobile industry signs European Road Safety Charter and joins “eSafetyAware”

2006-10-31T04:23:00Z

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COMPETITIVENESS: Leaders of World’s Automakers Address Global Issues

2006-03-02T06:24:00Z

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