Research Predicts Warning, Automatic Braking Systems on Autos Will Help Save Lives

Virginia Tech researchers extracted 1,396 incidents of rear-end collisions from a national database and looked at them on a case-by-case basis to determine whether the intelligent vehicle systems being studied would have been called into play and, if so, how they would have helped. The research showed that 7.7 percent of crashes would be prevented by use of all three systems - warning, assisted braking, and autonomous braking.

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