Radars: three new parliamentarians at AFFTAC

Three new parliamentarians have just given their support to the French Association of Suppliers and Users of Driving Assistance Technologies (AFFTAC) to protest against the ban on speed camera warning devices (read in particular MNC of May 2011 and our Special Report IRB: repression and reactions): Jean Grenet (deputy

Three new parliamentarians have just given their support to the French Association of Suppliers and Users of Driving Assistance Technologies (AFFTAC) to protest against the ban on speed camera warning devices (read in particular and our): Jean Grenet (deputy UMP of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Etienne Mourrut (UMP deputy of Gard) and Gerard Cornu (UMP senator of Eure-et-Loir).

"We must be right to keep and the measures taken by the IRB are incomprehensible to our fellow citizens," said in particular the deputy mayor of Bayonne (64) Jean Grenet, retired surgeon, specifying that "if the announced measures went through a project of law, he would vote against ".

Etienne Mourrut, deputy mayor of Grau-du-Roi (30) and retired trader, recalls for his part that "technological driving aids are essential tools for motorists to adopt responsible driving", adding that "without signaling or warning, it is impossible to drive knowing the limitation in force: the warning devices provide much better information on risk areas ".

Finally Gerard Cornu, senator mayor of Fontenay-sur-Eure (28), president of the study group on the automobile in the Senate and hearing aid optician, believes that "do without all the technological contributions that allow the motorist to keep increased attention and vigilance is a mistake. Our cars will become communicative, they must allow the sharing and circulation of information in order to promote better knowledge of hazards and greater anticipation. Wanting to prohibit technological advances is absurd ".

After Franck Marlin (read), there are therefore a total of three deputies (out of 577!) And one senator (out of 343!) Who have joined the ranks of AFFTAC, without, it seems, the IRB’s projects. have not yet reached the ears of socialists or environmentalists…

Because without aligning themselves behind AFFTAC, several other deputies of the presidential majority and of the New Center have already clearly indicated their opposition to the project to ban radar warning devices: they were superbly ignored by the government of François Fillon. and Nicolas Sarkozy – the latter being, it cannot be recalled enough, the main instigator of automatic radars in 2003. Which, of course, could not happen if France were a so-called "representative" democracy, in which parliamentarians would represent the people who elected them to charge the government to apply the laws they themselves would have passed…

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