23 Amendments of Kerstin WESTPHAL related to 2018/0145(COD)
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) Road safety is the Union-wide issue that needs to be tackled through an integrated approach at Union, national, regional and local level. It is therefore necessary to coordinate steps and measures taken by different authorities in different areas, including the enforcement of transport regulations, health care, education, improvement of infrastructure or vehicle type approval and technical controls of their capability.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) ONo one should die or get injured in a road accident. This shall be an overall major European objective. Nonetheless, 25,300 people died in the year 2017 on EU roads. In addition, at least 135,000 people are seriously injured in collisions every year on EU roads. The European Union shall do its utmost to reduce these figures drastically. However, over the past decades, developments in vehicle safety have contributed significantly to the overall reduction in the number of road fatalities and severe injuries. However, these reductions have recently stalled in the Union due to various factors, such as structural and behavioural factors, and without new initiatives on general road safety, the safety effects of the current approach will no longer be able to off-set the effects of increasing traffic volumes. Therefore, the safety performance of vehicles needs to be further improved as part of an integrated road safety approach and in order to protect vulnerable road users better.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Over the past decades, developments in vehicle safety have contributed significantly to the overall reduction in the number of road fatalities and severe injuries. However, these reductions have recently stalled in the Union due to various factors, such as structural and behavioural factors, and without new initiatives on general road safety, the safety effects of the current approach will no longer be able to off-set the effects of increasing traffic volumes. Therefore, the safety performance of vehicles needs to be further improved as part of an integrated road safety approach aiming at the Vision Zero goal of “no fatalities” and in order to protect vulnerableall road users better, in particular vulnerable ones.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) As some of proposed measures require substantial road infrastructure interventions, including necessary investments, phased implementation strategy for these measures should be introduced. Considerations should be therefore given to requirements for accurate traffic sign recognition, in particular speed limits. The Commission should also assess a public support and level of user’s acceptance for those measures, and promote them through road traffic safety awareness campaigns.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Intelligent speed assistance, lane- keeping systems, driver drowsiness and attention monitoring and distraction detection and reversing detection systems have a high potential to reduce casualty numbers considerably. The driver drowsiness and attention monitoring systems should work without any facial recognition. In addition, those systems are based on technologies which will be used for the deployment of connected and automated vehicles too. Therefore, harmonised rules and test procedures for the type-approval of vehicles as regards those systems and for the type-approval of those systems as separate technical units should be established at Union level.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) It is widely recognised that the safety belt is one of the most important and effective vehicle safety features. Safety-belt reminder systems therefore have the potential to further prevent fatalities or mitigate injuries by increasing the safety belt wearing rates across the Union. It is therefore necessary to make it compulsory to install intelligent safety- belt reminder systems for all front and rear seats of M1 and N1 vehicles and all front seats of N2, N3, M2 and M3 vehicles.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The introduction of event (accident) data recorders storing a range of crucial vehicle data over a short timeframe immediately before, during and immediately after a triggering event (for example, the deployment of an airbag) is a valuable step in obtaining more accurate, in-depth accident data. MAll motor-vehicles should therefore be required to be equipped with such recorders. It should also be a requirement that sSuch recorders arshould be capable for recording and storing data in such a way that the data can be used by Member States only to conduct road safety analysis and assess the effectiveness of specific measures taken without the possibility of identifying the owner or the holder of the vehicle.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Automated and connected vehicles may be able to make a huge contribution in reducing road fatalities since in the region ofmore than 90 per cent of road accidents are estimated to result from human error or interaction of human error with vehicle and/or infrastructure. As automated vehicles will gradually be taking over tasks of the driver, harmonised rules and technical requirements for automated vehicle systems should be adopted at Union level.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 6
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 6
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 13
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 13
(13) ‘event (accident) data recorder’ means a system solely designed for purpose of recording and storing critical crash-related parameters and information before, during andimmediately, and in any case not longer than 10 seconds, before, during and immediately, and in any case not longer than 5 seconds, after a collision;
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 13 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 13 a (new)
(13a) ‘safety-belt reminder’, means a system dedicated to alert the driver when any of the occupants do not use the safety-belt. The system is constituted by a detection of an unfastened safety-belt and by two levels of driver’s alert: a first level warning and a second level warning;
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Manufacturers shall provide clear and comprehensive information in the owner’s manual about the existence of the systems introduced by this Regulation and how to use them.
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point d
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) accident data recorder.
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) it shall be possible for the driver to feel through the accelerator pedalrecognise that the applicable speed limit is reached or exceeded;
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) it shall be possible for the driver to override the system’s prompted vehicle speed smoothly through normal operation of the accelerator pedal without need for kick-downeasily anytime;
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Accident data recorders shall meet the following requirements: (a) the data that they are capable of recording and storing with respect of the period immediately before, during and immediately after a collision shall include following information: - the state and rate of activation of its all safety systems; - the state and rate of activation of its all assistance systems; - the vehicle’s speed, braking, position, lights activation, and tilt of the vehicle; - driver’s response with regard to the steering wheel position, brake activation and gear shift; (b) it shall not be possible to deactivate the devices; (c) the way in which they are capable of recording and storing data shall be such that the data is protected against manipulation and misuse and can be made available to national authorities only, on the basis of Union or national legislation in compliance with Regulation (EU) No 2016/679, over a standardised interface via offline access for the purposes of accident data analysis, and such that the precise vehicle type, version and variant, and in particular the active safety and accident avoidance systems fitted to the vehicle, can be identified. However, the data that an accident data recorder is capable of recording and storing shall not include the last four digits of the vehicle indicator section of the vehicle information number nor any other information which could allow the individual vehicle itself, its driver to be identified. Moreover, the data processed recorded by an accident data recorder: (a) shall be available outside an accident data recorder only in case of the collision of the vehicle and not before the triggering by the collision; (b) shall not be retained longer than necessary for the purpose referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 7(5); (c) shall be fully deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for that purpose. Manufacturers shall ensure that an accident data recorder is not traceable and is not subject to any constant tracking.
Amendment 219 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Driver drowsiness and attention monitoring systems shall be designed in a way that these systems do not continuously record nor collect any data, including for the purpose of the accident data recorder.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Vehicles of categories M1 and N1 shall be equipped with advanced systems capable of detecting vulnerable road users and providing a warning or avoiding collision with such vulnerable road users.
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. All seating positions of M1 and N1 categories of vehicles shall be equipped with safety-belt reminder.
Amendment 279 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. The seating position of the driver of N2, N3, M2 and M3 categories of vehicles as well as the seating positions of the occupants of seats in the same row as the driver seat of N2, N3, M2 and M3 categories of vehicles shall be equipped with a safety-belt reminder.
Amendment 296 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new)
Article 14 a (new)
Article 14a Reporting and review 1. By 31 March 2021, the Commission shall prepare and submit an evaluation report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the following issues: (a) technical feasibility and road infrastructure readiness, including traffic sign recognition; (b) users’ acceptance analysis. Member States, regardless of their relative population or geographical location, shall be proportionally represented in the data collected. 2. The Commission shall assess whether the scope of this Regulation should be extended to other potential safety technologies and measures, in particular intelligent speed assistance system that would provide driver with a haptic feedback through the accelerator pedal and advanced distraction recognition. If appropriate, the Commission shall present a legislative proposal to that effect.