NHTSA STUDY: COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEMS CAN REDUCE CRASHES

One-year field study involved 169 drivers operating 150 tractor-trailers from seven different motor carriers using two 2013-era collision avoidance system packages.

A one-year field study of collision avoidance systems (CAS) conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) has found that collision avoidance systems (CAS) can reduce if not eliminate crashes, with majority of fleet managers participating in the study calling for this technology to become standard equipment in the industry.

NHTSA’s research – entitled Field Study of Heavy-Vehicle Crash Avoidance Systems: Final Report – sampled 6,000 CAS activations from over 3 million miles and 110,000 hours of “naturalistic driving data” in order to evaluate the reliability of those system activations – including all automatic emergency braking (AEB) and all impact alert (IA) events, according to the agency.

The result? None of those activations were associated with collisions; especially rear-end collisions due to emergency braking by the tractor-trailer.
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