Role model as a mean to increase the carrying capacity of ISA. In different European countries ISA demonstration project were or are still ongoing. Some people have doubts about the acceptance of ISA. In a Belgian research project the carrying capacity of ISA was investigated; a big majority of the Belgian people were in favour of the mandatory ISA. A lack of acceptance could be noticed on the political level. This is due to the bad knowledge of ISA but also by the fact that politicians translate their opinion in the so-called opinion of the people. In Belgium was chosen to increase the knowledge of the political level. A lot of politicians drove with ISA-cars and in the Ghent ISA-trial was explicitly chosen for role model. People with an important social function drove more than a year with an ISA car. Demonstrations with the ISA-car were given for a lot of group of people. The direct effect was that the media –TV, radio, newspaper, …- gave a lot of attention to ISA. The result was an important change on the political level: different parliamentary recommendations towards the government were voted. Different new ISA-trial will be set up as a result of these recommendations. In Brussels, ISA will be built in cars of the ministers, parliaments and administration. By doing so the government gives the ISA-example. In Ghent a new ISA-trial with young drivers (with an ISA-insurance-policy) and with well-know people of Ghent will be started. (Author/publisher)
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