The U.S. has unveiled new rules for auto manufacturers, requiring all new cars to be fitted with automatic emergency braking (AEB).
“We have a crisis of roadway deaths in this country—and today we’re taking a major step toward addressing this with our new rule on automatic emergency braking,” said Department of Transport (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg on X.
The DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced the new rules on Monday, claiming that they will save lives and prevent thousands of injuries each year.
Advanced AEB systems will automatically apply the brakes if the car detects that it is likely to crash into another vehicle or pedestrian.
The NHTSA claims that the new rules will prevent 360 deaths and roughly 24,000 injuries every year.
Although many new cars already implement some level of AEB system, the new rules requires more advanced systems than are present in most new cars.
Currently, most AEB systems are only effective at “city speeds” successfully stopping the majority of rear-end crashes at 30 miles per hour or below, but failing above 40.
The new rules would require the systems to be effective at speeds up to 62 mph, and would also require the systems to detect pedestrians in low-light environments.
The NHTSA does not expect the new rule to impose an unnecessary burden on the auto industry.
“Most new vehicles already come with AEB, and we expect that many cars and light trucks will be able to meet this standard ahead of the deadline, meaning even more lives will be saved thanks to this technology,” said NHTSA Deputy Administrator Sophie Shulman.
The new rules come as a result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law from 2021, which instructed the DOT to develop rules for the universal implementation of AEB systems.
It is unclear whether the manufacturers or authorities will be able to access the systems remotely.
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Oaky — now that’s funny.
Finally, a subject that “Mayor Pete” knows something about: rear ending.
T C. took the words right out of my mouth.
This is the first time in his life that Mayor Pete has tried to prevent rear-ending.
The DOT is trying to save 360 lives which is admirable. Yet, our own government in conjunction with the Fauci Cabal and the CCP are ultimately responsible for over 1.4 U.S. deaths with their handling of the scamdemic. Is that all “behind” us and forgotten already?
If this is like most Federal regulations for the auto industry, it will add costs with little or no benefits.. Government safety and environmental regulations are why new cars are so ridiculously expensive today.
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“Pete Buttigieg Unveils New Auto Manufacturing Rules to Prevent Rear-Ending”
…ok, Seamus! Did you actually come up with that headline!? 🤡😂😂😂
So we are going to raise the price of new cars so that a handful of people who were probably texting on their phones can survive a crash. I guess I’ll have to keep by 2016 Accord a few more years.
Appropriate title! Up goes the price of the car for what I would say is a minimal benefit. Will make used car prices go up as well for those who don’t want to pay for another gov’t mandate on the car companies. Another gov’t busy body trying to tell everybody else what to do. I wish they would all just go away and leave us alone.
This will be real interesting when it malfunctions
Carolyn, Very good. Has the potential to increase distracted driving as folks come to rely on it. Could possibly cancel out any supposed benefit.l
I don’t need a car to stop for me. That can be dangerous on slippery roads especially if it malfunctions at 60 MPH. There is way too much intrusion in our lives!!!!
This is a joke, right?
Great. More added cost for basically nothing.
Sometimes you have to speed up to get out of a situation and if you are accelerating out of a accident so others don’t hit you, the brakes applied because your close to a vehicle your going around, your screwed. Government need to have proof they are relevant so they get high and think of how they can screw things up.