Driver assistance systems such as lane assist and automatic emergency braking are now found in more than 90 percent of all new cars, a new American survey shows.
Some assistance systems can be switched off, others are optional, while a third are mandatory by law. A number of them have in common that they are now found in more than 90 percent of all new cars.
This is the conclusion of a new American study.
The report, which was made in collaboration between the car manufacturers and US traffic safety authorities, shows that at least five assistant systems can be found in all cars from model year 2023 onwards.
These are: collision warning, the automatic emergency brake, pedestrian warning, emergency braking for the same pedestrians and the lane assistant.
That's what Automotive News writes.
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The figures in the report are based on data collected from nearly 98 million cars that were built through the 2023 model year. All of them have been put on sale in the US market for July 31 of last year.
For several of the assistant systems, this is an enormous growth in just a few years. For example, collision warning was only a feature in 12.8 percent of all new cars in 2015. Now that figure is as much as 94 percent.
The automatic corner brake was only in four percent of cars in 2015, but now the system is in more than 94 percent of all new cars. More than half of the cars in the new survey also have adaptive cruise control, lane departure and blind spot assistant.
However, not everyone is equally enthusiastic about the many assistant systems that the cars are gradually crammed with. For example, it is not more than a few months ago that another investigation made it clear that at least one assistant system is the same as false security. Read more about it here .
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