Is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about to add more more safety measures to your next new car? According to The Detroit News, they might subsist. The Motown daily says that government officials are pondering whether or not they should require new vehicles to be fitted with lane-departure warning systems and automatic braking systems that trigger upon warning of an impending accident. Both systems are currently available only in very diminutive percentage of new passenger cars – primarily luxury vehicles. According to the DetNews circulate publicly, safety experts believe that the systems “evidence important promise” in their ability to reduce traffic accident-related fatalities and injuries.
NHTSA will decide whether to require such systems in 2011 subsequent more distant cost-benefit analysis, including looking at insurance joint concern data and estimated manufacturing costs. It has already added new components to its New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) for 2011 vehicles, including a test that measures the effectiveness of lane-departure warning systems and a different frontal-crash program.
NHTSA hopes to announce its findings by the end of the year.
[Source: The Detroit News]
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