Absolutely crazy to me that the UK and EU were so behind on this compared to the US. I guess the US’s traditionally good (who knows what’s happening now) disability lobby was more powerful than its “screw anyone not in a car” lobby.
The law in the US was passed in 2010, though implementation of the rule took a few years. I think Tesla were the only ones who didn’t make any noise until they were absolutely required to, probably for obvious reasons.
The EU was trailing by 4 years. With the regulation being signed into power in 2014. However, in the US from what I read, full binding, in detail, implementation also took until 2020, from what I understand the transition period in the EU was 5 years so it should have been obligatory from 2019 onwards.
As the article notes, this problem has mostly been solved by requiring AVAS in EVs sold from 2021 and onwards
Absolutely crazy to me that the UK and EU were so behind on this compared to the US. I guess the US’s traditionally good (who knows what’s happening now) disability lobby was more powerful than its “screw anyone not in a car” lobby.
The law in the US was passed in 2010, though implementation of the rule took a few years. I think Tesla were the only ones who didn’t make any noise until they were absolutely required to, probably for obvious reasons.
The EU was trailing by 4 years. With the regulation being signed into power in 2014. However, in the US from what I read, full binding, in detail, implementation also took until 2020, from what I understand the transition period in the EU was 5 years so it should have been obligatory from 2019 onwards.