Government to make rear-view sensors mandatory in all cars soon.
NEW DELHI:
Government will soon make rear view sensors or backup cameras mandatory in all
new vehicles to avoid mishaps.
Even though
cars come equipped with rear view mirrors which are adequate for looking at
vehicles behind, they are inadequate in detecting small children or objects
close to the ground, falling in car's blind spot.
To rectify
this, "the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) will soon issue
a notification to make rear view sensors mandatory in all vehicles", Joint
Secretary of the Ministry Abhay Damle said.
Addressing
the curtain raiser event for World Roads
Meet (WRM 2017) organised by International Road Federation (IRF), he said more
than 50,000 fatal accidents take place in the country due to over speeding and
hence the government is planning to make audio warnings also mandatory in
vehicles.
"Government
is also planning to make audio warning mandatory in vehicles on similar lines
of seat belt wearing sign. At the speed of 80 km/hr small beep sound warning
will come and after the speed of 90 km/hr a continuous beep will alert the
speeding driver," Damle said.
He said the
government has already made it compulsory for all two-wheelers, which account
for the highest share of accidents, to either have the anti-lock braking system
(ABS) or the combined braking system (CBS) by April 2019.
Apart from
rear view sensors and speed warning, air bags will also become mandatory in all
vehicles soon, he said adding, from October 1, 2018 vehicles will have to go in
for automated inspection and fitness certification test with hardly any human
intervention.
Similarly,
driving license test will also become automated by that time and will help reduce
road accidents, he added.
He said in
the proposed Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, which will be introduced in the
Winter session of Parliament, provisions have been made for legal protection of
Good Samaritans who help accident victims.
Government
has added a significant clause under which a Good Samaritan's affidavit will
have the legal force of a statement, and if a statement is required, it should
be recorded in a single examination and for any further information the
judicial or law officer will have to go to his or her house and record the
statement, he said.
IRF Chairman
KK Kapila said India will host, for the first time, World Road Meeting from
November 14-17, 2017.
The major
highlight of the WRM 2017 will be a summit of transport ministers from various
parts of the globe. The theme would be 'Safe Roads and Smart Mobility : The
Engines of Economic Growth', Kapila said.
Source: Government
to make rear-view sensors mandatory in all cars soon.