The European Commission has stated that all new vehicles registered in the European Union will have to be fitted with Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) systems to comply with new, more stringent safety legislation.
As the European Conservative points out, there is currently very little clarity from the EU over how driver data is handled, meaning there is the potential for these systems to eventually help determine insurance premiums or act as evidence in a court of law, for example.
Critics have already hit out at the decision, with the European Conservative describing the commission’s move as the “latest annoying piece of EU overregulation,” which arrives with little clarification on how the data will be handled.
