Plans by the EU to install black boxes in new cars have proven to be unpopular.
The ‘e-Call’ system would be fitted to new cars built from November 2015 under suggested changes to EU regulations on driving. Its purpose is to notify local emergency services following a collision and could do so even if the car occupants had been rendered unconscious. EU lawmakers believe that 2500 lives could be saved every year across the continent.
However a recent survey of British drivers has shown that 71.5% of them would not be in favour of such technology. Many car users feel that black boxes would pave the way for increasingly invasive technology which would monitor their behaviours and speeding violations.
Mike Carpenter, who led the survey, said: ‘You can’t argue with the benefits of a device being used to make it easier for the emergency services to track a vehicle, but the results of our poll are clear. British drivers don’t want costly Big Brother devices attached to their cars which have the potential to track their movements at all times.’
Such technology is often fitted to the cars of new drivers as a means of reducing insurance premiums and it is exactly this level of interference which UK drivers fear could be the final result of recent EU moves.
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