Safety First! Cars in India to Have Mandatory Rear-View Sensors

The Transport Ministry is doing its best to curb the number mishaps that take place in a year.

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If all goes according to plan, then most cars in the market will come with built-in rear-view sensors, something that the government is looking to make mandatory.

Even though cars come equipped with rear-view mirrors, which are adequate for looking at vehicles behind, they are inadequate for detecting small children or objects close to the ground, falling in the 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.

<b>Abhay Damle, Joint Secretary, MoRTH</b>

Speaking on the sidelines of the 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 also make audio warnings mandatory in vehicles.

Government is also planning to make audio warning mandatory in vehicles on similar lines of the seat belt wearing sign. At the speed of 80 km/hr a small beep sound warning will come, and after the speed of 90 km/hr a continuous beep will alert the speeding driver.

<b>Abhay Damle, Joint Secretary, MoRTH</b>

In addition to four-wheelers, they also seek for two-wheelers to have either anti-lock braking system (ABS) or the combined braking system (CBS) by April 2019.

Similarly, the driving licence test will also become automated by that time, and will help reduce road accidents.

The proposed Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, which will be introduced in the Winter session of Parliament, will have provisions for legal protection of Good Samaritans who help accident victims.