According to a recent study, technologies such as forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking reduce the number of front and rear collisions by 50%.
Cars are increasingly equipped with driver assistance technologies. Some even become almost mandatory to get a good score in the Euro NCAP crash tests.
And even if some of these driving aids are not necessarily essential, or even “too many” in recent cars (there are sometimes more than forty in a top-of-the-range model), some are much more useful than you might imagine.
Aids that have become essential
This has just been highlighted by the Partnership for Analytics Research in Traffic Safety (PARTS), which has published the results of the largest study to date on the real effectiveness of advanced driver assistance systems. (ADAS) in our modern cars.
The study shows that vehicles equipped with a collision warning system and an automatic emergency braking system reduced shocks both front and rear by about half. In addition, automatic emergency braking in most cases performs very well in all conditions, even when the road surface, weather conditions and lighting are not ideal.
The study also shows that lane keeping systems and lane centering assistance are effective and reduce the number of serious accidents.
It should also be remembered that Tesla’s Autopilot avoids around 40 “stupid” accidents every day: when the driver presses, by mistake, on the accelerator and not on the brake.
Builders and legislators hand in hand
Several manufacturers participated in this study, namely Honda, General Motors, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Stellantis, Subaru and Toyota. Together, these industrial partners accounted for over 65% of the US market. Recently, Ford also joined this partnership aimed at further improving these technologies, thus increasing the share to more than 80% in the USA.
In Europe, as stated above, these driver assistance systems are regularly scrutinized by the Euro NCAP organization. Recently there have been many changes. Among them, there was the arrival of a new protocol concerning driving aidswith a series of tests much more complex than in the past.
The aids are now tested to shed light on their behavior in everyday situations, such as motorway traffic or on busy roads, but also in less common situations, such as when dodging an obstacle on the road. road or automatic emergency braking in the event of a sudden, unexpected slowdown.
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