by Brian Byrne. The United Arab Emirates is putting GPS and telematics units into tens of thousands of cars and trucks in order to try and cut down the country's accident rate.
The €100m deal with IBM will mean that drivers exceeding the speed limits can be spotted by traffic authorities from the information which will be automatically sent to the authorities.
The system will be brought in over four years.
Accident-related fatalities are 38 per 100,000 people, compared to 15/100,000 in the US and 6/100,000 in Sweden.
