Vehicle Security Barriers (VSBs) are frequently utilised in urban settings to defend against vehicular terrorist attacks. They may come in various forms, including bollards, street furniture and landscape features. The effectiveness of such barriers is usually assessed through a singular vehicle...
Thanks to the EU General Safety Regulation, all vehicles in the EU will now have to be equipped with a series of new safety features to assist the driver and help better protect passengers, pedestrians and cyclists across the EU. The rules also establish the first legal framework to allow automa...
This report summarizes a research testing campaign on three Heavy-Duty Vehicles (HDV) for the Advanced Emergency Braking system (AEB), in the framework of the Commission’s Market Surveillance activities on vehicle safety and the related pre-normative research activities. The aim was to identify ...
The regulation of Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) systems has been mandated by the European Parliament and Council in Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 (the ‘General Safety Regulation’) in order to prevent distraction-based collisions and crashes. Most M and N category vehicles (passenger car...