Car crashes could be slashed by nearly a quarter by installing just one piece of kit, according new research. Putting an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) in all cars in the UK would cut out 23.8 per cent or nearly 19,000 accidents in the country each year.
The system can detect and avoid pedestrians, warn and correct if you’re straying out of your lane, recognise traffic signs, automatically put on the emergency brakes, and detect blind spots. Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) was the most powerful ADAS technology and reduced three out of the four most common accident categories according to researchers from Motion-S, Luxembourg, and Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software at University of Limerick (UL).
AEB stopped 28 percent of intersections, 27.7 percent of rear-ends and 28.4 percent of pedestrian accidents. After looking at publicly-available 2019 road safety reports from the UK the researchers predicted fully deploying ADAS would cut out 18,925 accidents each year - a reduction of 23.8 percent.
