27 Jun 2024, 13:05

This does not give the ability to stop sales you need to be literate and learn what road legal means. It means able to be used on the road. You can still sell bikes, cars and vehicles without these systems they just wouldn't be road legal. These are not controversial requirements, I don't know of many cars on the market today that don't have these systems onboard and yes some implementations may be bad but most are not and if anything thats a reason for the bad manufacturers to improve their systems not to ditch it because a few manufacturers can't design cars properly. If you oppose this you are essentially saying "my car manufactaurers are shite and I have no confidence in them to create safe and working systems" . Also on bikes who doesn't buy lights, and high viz and who doesn't buy indicators or mirrors if they are sensible. They are things that cost maybe a few hundred euros max in total for even the most expensive systems but can save your life and make cycling much easier , more so if they are designed into the bike to begin with.

Voting against this is voting for deaths of 10's of thousands of Europeans per year and consigning 10's of thousands of pedestrians per year , cyclists and drivers to a death sentence. These are common sense aids to have on bikes and cars. I hope you mr Tusk can too explain to the mother who loses her son that her son or daughters life needed to end because some people needed a car to be a few thousand euros cheaper or their bike to be 200 euros cheaper.

As for article two it is necessary as it gives the nationstates control over the agency and having a centralised agency to do the tests and approvals and recommend changes in which they could recommend changes to lane keeping assist for example if its over sensitive is just more efficient. Its better to have one central agency in Europolis testing the cars for safety than have to pass a test in over 20 countries as is presently the case because standards may be different in Spain than the Duchies. With this for example Seat could design a car in Spain test it once in Europolis then sell it in every country saving money on design and testing costs lowering the costs of cars sold to the consumer while still maintaining confidence in the safety of the car. The alternative is 20+ different standards wit 20+ different roadworthiness tests adding thousands of Euro's to the cost of a car. Unless you are saying Spain has no road safety agency or tests to see if a car is safe before it can go on sale in which case how can anyone feel safe buying Spanish products.

Skye Hook , Councillour for United Duchies