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10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, and Institute for Highway Safety announced today a landmark agreement from 10 of the world's biggest automakers to include automatic emergency braking on all new vehicles as a standard safety feature. The car manufacturers are: Audi, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Mazda, Mercedes Benz, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo. "Automatic emergency braking includes a range of systems designed to address the large number of crashes, especially rear-end crashes, in which drivers do not apply the brakes or fail to apply sufficient braking power to avoid or mitigate a crash. AEB systems use on-vehicle sensors such as radar, cameras or lasers to detect an imminent crash, warn the driver and, if the driver does not take sufficient action, engage the brakes."
The problem is the low speed limits. They make driving so boring. If you could actually drive as fast as conditions allow I would spend time enjoying the drive and paying attention not dozing off because someone decided 45 mph is the safe speed.
I love Jesus, except for his foreign policy.
Maybe we should all live in bunkers surrounded by big mounds of cinder blocks.
FFS, this hyperbole goes nowhere. Maybe we should all fire loaded guns at our own heads too and hope that they jam every time.
We're not talking about goddamned cinder block bunkers. We're talking about a simple breaking technology.
It wouldn't even cost as much as all the 'safety' features the car dealers are eager to have as 'mandatory' to jack the sticker price up.
Stop being an insane liar, please.