Radar warning devices: agreement between AFFTAC and Gueant

Demonized by the thinking heads of the IRB (read our IRB File), the manufacturers of radar detectors have had to adapt to face the threats weighing on their (profitable) activity: they have just reached an agreement with the government.

Demonized by the thinking heads of the IRB (read our), the manufacturers of radar warning devices have had to adapt to face the threats weighing on their (profitable) activity: they have just found an agreement with the government.

Gathered under the banner of the French Association of Suppliers and Users of Driving Assistance Technologies (AFFTAC), officials from Coyote, Inforad, Wikango, Avertinoo, Eklaireur and Takara signed a protocol with the Minister of the Interior Claude Gueant foreseeing that these small boxes will no longer indicate "the location of fixed or mobile radars, as well as that of road checks operated by the police".

Now renamed "Driving assistance tools", they will now indicate "Dangerous road sections" and "Specific danger points" (traffic obstacle, level or dangerous crossing, schools, hospitals, work areas, etc. .) thanks to data "from State services or reports from users of devices", explains AFFTAC.

The sections of dangerous tracks will represent a section of track "of at least 4 km on the motorway network, of at least 2 km outside built-up areas and at least 300 meters in built-up areas", specifies the agreement..

Users of driving assistance tools will therefore be able to continue to legally exchange real-time information on traffic, but no longer directly communicate the position of fixed or mobile speed cameras..

Thanks to the establishment of this protocol, it has been recognized by the government that these devices participate "in the objectives of road safety and in the strengthening of pedagogy with regard to drivers", reports AFFTAC which is also committed disseminate road safety messages and "initiate work on hypovigilance in partnership with State services".

In addition, "in order to facilitate the understanding of these changes for users of driving assistance tools", the Ministry of the Interior and AFFTAC have decided to create a "Professional label validated by a third-party certifier. ", which will allow users and distributors to use or sell products that comply with the new regulations.

"An important point is that the utility of the community principle of our devices is recognized today as a key element of road safety", underlined Loic Rattier, president of AFFTAC, who said he was "completely satisfied. by this agreement with the government ".

The AFFFTAC manufacturers have undertaken to no longer distribute, within four months, products that do not comply with this protocol..

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