eCall
eCall is a automated system for alerting Emergency Services. It was introduced in 2018, and all car manufactures that sell cars in the European Union have to put it in the cars they sell. The system will automatically alert emergency services by sending a standardized message to the Europe-wide emergency number 112. The message sent includes things like the current position and direction of the car or the time the accident happened. It also includes other data, like two positions of the car, in the last fifteen seconds before the accident. Optionally, it can include things like the number of people in the car, whether the vehicle turned upside down, or other specific information.
Such cars also have a button which can trigger the message manually.
In 2007, TÜV did some crash tests, at the site in Cologne. Unfortunately, the forgot to deactivate the respective alerting system. Soon, ambulances and fire engines were on site, as a major accident had been signalled.[1]
