Members of the European Parliament (MEP) have agreed to back a proposal to mandate emergency calling devices in new vehicles beginning in 2018, The Irish Times reports. The system could prevent up to 10 percent of road deaths, according to the report, and will be free and automatically call an emergency number if the vehicle crashes. There were some data privacy concerns, but according to MEP Olga Sehnalová, the final draft met those concerns. She said MEPs “want a system that remains neutral in terms of normal operational activity and ensures that any information serves solely the purpose of saving human lives,” adding any other use of the data “would require the express authorization of the person concerned.”
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