Press Release: Road safety: Commission proposes better vehicle design to improve drivers’ vision

On 7 January 2002, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a new directive on rear view mirrors and supplementary indirect vision systems for motor vehicles. The proposal aims to improve road user safety by upgrading the performance of rear view mirrors and accelerating the introduction of new technologies that increase the field of indirect vision for drivers of passenger cars, buses and lorries.

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http://ec.europa.eu/comm/enterprise/automotive/index.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/enterprise/automotive/index.htm

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