Posted on 03/16/2016 10:29:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Major automakers and the U.S. government have reached agreement to make automatic emergency braking standard equipment on most cars by 2022, two people briefed on the deal said.
The agreement will be announced Thursday by automakers and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Automakers will phase in the equipment on nearly all models except some with older electronic capabilities and some with manual transmissions, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because terms of the agreement havent been announced.
Automatic emergency braking uses cameras, radar and other sensors to see objects in the way and slow or stop a vehicle if the driver doesnt react. The technology already is available as an option on many models, but automakers are struggling with how to fit it into current product plans that might not be ready for the electronics. Making the feature standard equipment on nearly all cars will speed adoption of the technology.
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Should make rush hour a little better, of course I’ll be retired before then.
The Trial Lawyers will be salivating waiting for the first system failure.
What could possibly go wrong?
I personally think this is good news. Anyone who has raised teenagers through their initial years of driving likely wish this had been available earlier.
This is bad news for ambulance chasing lawyers.
So when someone cuts in front of you, the system brakes automatically and causes the person behind to run into you. This should be a boon to staged accident scams.
My new Honda Pilot (with sensing) has this.
It’s excellent.
Which will raise the price of your average car by hundreds if not thousands while it will be an incentive on auto insurance, and after many accidents and deaths due to this idiocy will be phased out in favor of the most efficient mode of transportation - the bicycle ...
The Luddites would force a return to the horse, which at least can run at 40 mph in short bursts and out-accelerate most bikes.
No no no riding horses falls under animal cruelty. Bicycles are the most efficient form of human transportation and do not require wasting good power generating biofuel to feed some broken down nag.
Why not? Autonomous voting is in about 40+% effect in 2016.
I think the family of the woman killed in the rear-end collision accident of Bruce Jenner would wish that Jenner’s SUV had been equipped with this technology.
I can hardly wait for the wild chase scenes in movies. Get ready for edge of your seat tension with the season’s hottest blockbuster, “Riding the Brakes.”
Screenwriters thinking of having their heroes bust out of the compound or prison by ramming the SUV through the gates had better get crackin on alternatives.
Car accidents are a leading cause of death (#12 according to Wikipedia).
Also, even minor accidents cause very expensive repairs which raise insurance rates.
I would hope that this will eventually lead to reductions in insurance rates.
My Honda Accord Touring has it if I have cruise control set. I can determine how many feet behind a vehicle I want to be.
Do you have to be in cruise control?
“My new Honda Pilot (with sensing) has this.
Its excellent.”
How do you know that?
Are you not braking when you normally would, letting the car decide for you? Are you letting yourself become the backup for the automatic braking rather than let the automatic braking be the backup for you?
Wanna bet it puts on the brakes for a newspaper blowing in the wind, a gust of dust, and a squirrel? (I would not brake for the paper and the dust. I would brake for the squirrel if there’s no one right behind me)
I worry about the ability to force a person to stop. Stuff like this will become a resource for kidnappers.
“Do you have to be in cruise control?”
No, not really...
The $1,000 sensing package has lot’s of great features while in cruse mode but it can brake the car to avoid a collision with a pedestrian or another vehicle if it senses a delta of more than 3 MPH. There is a button on the lower dash (think knee level) that can turn it off.
It activated on me two days ago — I was in a 25 MPH zone, slowing for a red light (likely doing 18 MPH or less) when someone in the right turn lane decided to shift to my lane (obviously did not want to turn right). The brakes went on and I slowed -— I was applying the brakes at the time but the sensors did their job.
I, like you, gladly spent the extra money for this package.
Honda legally does not state it’s sensing package will ‘stop’ a collision (open invitation to a law suit) though that’s the package will do.
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