Centre to make rear view sensors must for vehicles

New Delhi: The government will soon make rear view sensors or backup cameras mandatory in all new vehicles to avoid mishaps. Even though cars come equipped with rear view mirrors which are adequate for looking at vehicles behind, they are inadequate in detecting small children or objects close to the ground, falling in car’s blind spot.

To rectify this, “the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) will soon issue a notification to make rear view sensors mandatory in all vehicles”, joint secretary of the ministry Abhay Damle said. Addressing the curtain raiser event for World Roads Meet organised by International Road Federation, he said more than 50,000 fatal accidents take place in the country due to over speeding and hence the government is planning to make audio warnings also mandatory in vehicles.

“The government is also planning to make audio warning mandatory in vehicles on similar lines of seat belt wearing sign. At the speed of 80 km/hr small beep sound warning will come and after the speed of 90 km/hr a continuous beep will alert the speeding driver,” Mr Damle said. He said the government has already made it compulsory for all two-wheelers, which account for the highest share of accidents, to either have the anti-lock braking system (ABS) or the combined braking system (CBS)  by April 2019.