Car manufacturers will now have to fit an artificial noise to all quiet electric and hybrid vehicles, making British roads safer for blind and partially sighted people and
other vulnerable road users.
This change will make our roads safer and help protect not only blind and partially sighted people, but pedestrians, cyclists and
other vulnerable road users.»
Not exact matches
The autonomous emergency braking system detects
other vehicles but can not detect
vulnerable road users such as pedestrians or cyclists.
Such strategies include cycling networks (segregated or non-segregated bike lanes; bike paths), and
other means to permit safe access for all
road users, including
vulnerable road users such as cyclists and pedestrians.
Drivers do need to acknowledge that there are
other road users who share the
road and are particularly
vulnerable to even low speed collisions.
On May 17, MassBike and WalkBoston will head to the State House to urge legislators to pass a
Vulnerable Road Users Bill, which would increase fines for drivers who hit and kill cyclists, pedestrians and
others who would be defined as «
Vulnerable Road Users.»
While
other jurisdictions have enacted legislation to protect cyclists as «
vulnerable road users», BC's laws are largely dismissive of bicycles.
Vulnerable road users would include cyclists, pedestrians and
others who travel alongside cars.
According to the League of American Bicyclists, nine
other states have
vulnerable road user laws and 17 have laws which in some way address
vulnerable road users.