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With Luís Santos, director of marketing, communications and customer experience at Volvo Car Portugal, we discuss brands, people and decisions that build safety. In the news: a week that forces us to think about durability, anticipates...
Elon Musk says Tesla's 'automatic' driving system could receive regulatory approval for use in Europe as soon as next month.
From 2026, new cars will be fitted with additional safety equipment mandated by regulators to reduce road accidents. The measures should lower collisions and casualties and could bring long‑term savings in insurance and healthcare, but they will increase manufacturers’ costs and are likely to push up new‑car prices. Policymakers will need to balance public‑safety benefits against affordability, using tools such as subsidies, tax incentives, phased implementation or targeted support to lessen the impact on lower‑income buyers.
Devices that will become mandatory in Spain must be activated and positioned as high as possible on vehicles without the driver leaving the vehicle. The aim is to prevent deaths.
