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NTSB Urges Carmakers to Adopt Collision Avoidance Systems
The National Transportation Safety Board suggests the U.S. auto industry install systems that reduce rear-end collisions on all passenger and commercial vehicles.
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The National Transportation Safety Board suggests the U.S. auto industry install systems that reduce rear-end collisions on all passenger and commercial vehicles.
NTSB says 1.7 million rear-end crashes in the U.S. in 2012 killed 1,700 people and injured 500,000. Full collision avoidance systems warn the driver of an impending front-end impact and apply the brakes automatically if needed to avoid or reduce the force of impact.
In a 63-page report, NTSB grouses that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has taken "slow and insufficient" action to drive greater adoption of such systems.
The report tallies 319 models sold in the U.S. that offer a system 92% of them optional that warns the driver of an impending collision. But only four systems (a Mercedes-Benz and three Subaru models) apply the brakes automatically if the driver fails to do so quickly enough.
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