"The story of car bloat—the continually expanding size of the typical American automobile—is one of carmaker profit, shifting consumer preferences, and loophole-riddled auto regulations. It is also a story of hidden costs: to the planet, to taxpayers, and to the American families whose lives have been shattered by a crash that could have been avoided, or at least mitigated, with a smaller vehicle."
Cuz a lot of the shite done in the #USA is literally banned in the #EU for being dangerous to other traffic participants like pedestrians, cyclists, bikers and smaller/lighter vehicles... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
My word there are suddenly a lot of Automatic Emergency Brake experts, I suppose they needed something to do after being the submarine experts and the AI experts.
All that I have seen are amply demonstrating they know tap all about AEB.
#NCAP, as you and I have discussed before at length, has been a prime party in inappropriately expanding the scope, reliability and applicability of their AEB assessments.
All in the interests of providing cover for disinterested auto safety regulators.
#EuroNCAP has VERY simplistic AEB assessments that involve child-sized mannequins, by design.
Politicians, if they even need a basis, are going to point to those assessments as a "quick fix".
"Track based assessments" of driver assistance tech, whilst being awful in many circumstances on our roads. Thanks to OEMs working to pass the tests, as admitted by Thatcham, and not be user and real-world friendly.
Looking forward to seeing data that proves these help - I'll cut to the chase, the only data we will ever get is if it is activated, no proof it did anything of use. And that is used already to claim "SAFETY", see the meaningless AEB data that is spouted.
If EuroNCAP has a safety case established such that it fundamentally changes the control relationship between the human driver and the automated system in a Level 2-capable vehicle… then they should present it.
Or more accurately, very well built cars, thanks to NCAP's work, whose manufacturers have been pressurised into fitting technology that works on a test track but not reliably on public roads, as NCAP needed to keep its business going after it reached the limit of safe construction, so made up where else it pokes its nose.