emergency braking systems are nowadays standard equipment in most new cars, and it is a good news for both vulnerable road users and those who sit behind the wheel of the car. Nødbremserne has been significantly better than it was a few years ago. It shows a great test of the emergency braking, where the FDM, in collaboration with the european biljournalister just have tested a number of of the latest car models.
It informs the FDM in a press release.
– There has been a tremendous development in the field of smc in recent years. Where the maximum speed is just a few years ago was 30 km/h. in most cars, if the car would manage to brake all the way up, doing most of the day at least 50 km/h. The best systems can slow the car down at speeds over 80 km/h. Of the 19 tested models did the 18 thus, ’good’, and only a single model of car had to settle with a grade of ’means’, says Søren W. Rasmussen, bilteknisk editor in the FDM, in the press release.
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the emergency brake grabs at the last second and slows the car down, if you as a driver not paying attention. In fact assessed the technology to be the biggest contribution to safety in traffic next to the seat belt.
A british study shows that only in Britain will the emergency brakes over ten years save the 1,100 lives and prevent 122.000 injured. In Sweden, a similar study of 2,000 traffic accidents in the urban environment, shown that cars with emergency brakes reduce the vehicle drivers ‘ injuries by up to 64 percent at the rear-end collision compared to cars without an emergency brake.
To slow down for everything
As Søren W. Rasmussen also says, there has been a great development in the nødbremserne over the last year. It is expressed by the fact that many of the systems today also can ‘see’ vulnerable road users such as cyclists and children and slow down for them – even in the dark and in reduced visibility conditions.
– Should cars a day could run by itself, it is necessary that they too can slow down for everything and everyone under all driving conditions. Here is nødbremsesystemerne already reached a good piece and have a few years improved road safety significantly. It is due not least to the internal safety organisation Euro NCAP, which in its test current has tightened the requirements for secondary braking function, says Søren W. Rasmussen.
He stresses, however, that technology can’t replace an awake driver behind the wheel.
But even though the systems works well and helps to reduce the number of accidents, the best safety remains an attentive driver behind the wheel, says Søren W. Rasmussen.
the european UNION is working on, that the automatic emergency brake shall be a requirement in new cars by 2022.
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