There are some cars which comes with a system that allows the driver to contact emergency personnel, or a division within the car maker that tends to such emergencies such as car breakdowns and whatnot. However this is a feature that is typically found on higher-end vehicles which not everyone can afford.
The good news is that it looks like Europe wants to make this feature a standard across all cars by 2018. This is partly due to the fact that over 25,700 people died driving on European highways last year and in a bid to help reduce those numbers, the European Parliament believes that by outfitting cars with emergency call systems, it would allow them to reach out to emergency services faster, which ultimately could lead to more lives being saved.
According to MEP Olga Sehnalova, this is a feature that will be a public service and will be free of charge to all drivers regardless of their type of vehicle and how much it was bought for. THe program was originally proposed back in 2012 but it took a while as regulators worked out a system that would balance utility and privacy.
As it stands what has been proposed is that the tracking of the vehicle is disabled and will only be enabled when the car crashes. From there information such as vehicle type, location, and number of passengers will be sent to rescue services.
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