Studies find automatic braking can cut crashes over 40%

Traffic moves along the Interstate 76 highway on March 31, 2021, in Philadelphia. Two new US studies released on Nov 15, 2022, show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile crashes in half, and reduce pickup truck crashes by more than 40%. — AP

DETROIT: Two new US studies show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile crashes in half, and reduce pickup truck crashes by more than 40%.

The studies released Nov 15, one by a government-auto industry partnership and the other by the insurance industry, each used crash data to make the calculations. Automatic emergency braking can stop vehicles if a crash is imminent, or slow them to reduce the severity.