Activities of Jens ROHDE related to 2017/2085(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on saving lives: boosting car safety in the EU PDF (346 KB) DOC (77 KB)
Amendments (18)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 18 May 2017 on road transport in the European Union,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the installation of driver assistance systems in vehicles for persons of restrictwith reduced mobility and the elderly enables their safe, active participation in road traffic;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the move towards completely driver- free vehicles is progressing rapidly, so that a review of the General Safety Regulation needs to be submitted by the Commission no later than January 2018;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on Member States to improve their road infrastructure significantly by means of regular maintenance and innovative measures;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Observes that nearly half of all pedestrians and cyclists killed on the road deaths resulting from traffic accidents are aged over 65, and calls on Member States to make it possible for older people to use the roads safely by developing programmes to avert age-specific risks of accidents;improve the conditions for all pedestrians and cyclists to safely use the roads.
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Observes that, in 43% of cases, fatal road accidents in urban areas occur to pedestrians and cyclists, and calls on Member States to take greater account of the more vulnerable road users in building and maintaining roads, for example by building more cycle paths, or expanding themencourages cities to include targets into their Mobility plans to reduce the number of road and traffic accidents;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that someapproximately 95% of all accidents are due to human error and that therefore it should be compulsory to incorporate driver assistance systems which promote safety, a requirement that should apply only to those driver assistance systems which improve road safety significantly, as demonstrated by scientific evidence, which have a favourable cost- benefit ratio and which have attained market maturity.;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that warnings should be sufficiently distinct from one another to make it intuitively clear to which system the assistance pertains, and that warnings should moreover also be easy to perceive for older persons and persons with limited mobility; calls therefore on the parties concerned to adopt appropriate uniform standards;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and market operators to arrange forfacilitate the use of open standards and interfaces so that no systems peculiar to a single manufacturer limit interoperability and so that independent tests are possible thanks to access to the relevant vehicle and system data, including updates to them;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that a high level of data protection as required by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the General Data Protection Regulation and by the right to protection of privacy and personal data should be ensured, as should high IT security, so that the possibility of new accident risks due to remote manipulation of on-board systems or conflicts of compatibility is excluded;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to make it compulsory to install automatic emergency braking assistants with cyclist and pedestrian recognition in cars, light commercial vehicles, buses, coaches and heavy goods vehicles, as they have strong potential to prevent road accidents due to autonomous powerful braking and the resultant shorter stopping distance;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for the compulsory installation of overridable intelligent assistants to indicate speed limits, and calls on Member States to ensure that road signs are kept in excellent condition, and that road markings are clearly legible;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises that increasing the immediate field of direct vision in heavy goods vehicles, buses and coaches, and reducing the blind spot can help significantly to improve the road safety of such vehicles, and calls on the Commission to make it compulsory to install cameras and turning assistant systems, while observing that such measures should accord with Directive (EU) 2015/719 and should not result in any extension of the time limits for implementation laid down there;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Considers it necessary to make it compulsory to installpromote the use of seatbelt reminder systems for back seats too;