Press Release: Anti-crash radars: Commission enables cars to be equipped with road safety technology

Short-range radars that can detect collision dangers and automatically apply a car's brakes should be available by mid-2005, further to a Decision adopted by the European Commission on 18 January 2005. The decision, which allocated a specific radio frequency band to short-range radar devices, was the result of a two-year drive by the Commission and EU radio spectrum and road safety experts. According to the European Road Safety Action Programme, the number of road accident victims is to be halved in the EU by 2010.