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When traction control was introduced in German cars by Mercedes, accidents for those cars immediately fell by 15% compared with other vehicles. The government wisely made such systems mandatory. Similar improvements were noted years earlier for ABS - also, by the way, introduced in Germany, by Mercedes. It's probably too early to tell how automated braking systems work, but we should get preliminary results soon, and there's no reason to think there will be anything but another improvement over cars unequipped with such systems.
There's really no doubt at all that such automation reduces accidents, or that reducing accidents saves lives and reduces injuries. Comparisons for specific technologies are either already available, or will be very soon. There is no reason to think they will be anything but an improvement.
Results already coming in.
http://www.autonews.com/article/2016012 ... tudy-finds
The study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that vehicles with automatic braking and forward collision warning systems had a 39 percent lower incidence of rear-end crashes. Forward collision warning systems alone reduced rear-end collisions by 23 percent, the study found.
The combination of crash-prevention technologies cut the incidence of rear-end crashes involving injuries by 42 percent, but the study’s authors found that collision warning alone had little effect in reducing injury accidents.
Then why an 8% increase in deaths in 2 years?
Did tech
reduce injuries?
IOW. Even if the accident still resulted in 'injuries', was there a drop in the
severity of the injuries?
Context...
Can we get some context all up in here!!!?
The increase is overall. So far, cars with these systems are not a huge percentage of the current fleet.
I'd guess the increase is due more to increased driving in an improved economy, and increased congestion in a growing population.
And there's plenty of context in the reply. Can we get some reading all up in here?
