The Isle of Sheppey car crash was one of the biggest in UK history. New technology makes all of us safer on the road in the event of a collision and AEB is the latest development.
Thatcham has been researching and testing Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) systems on behalf of insurers for the last 3 years and has already undertaken an in-depth study of crashes and their causation factors.
A number of major vehicle manufacturers are already providing AEB technologies on their vehicles and such is their effectiveness, as shown in the Thatcham test, that international safety body Euro NCAP will incorporate the test as part of their overall vehicle safety standard in 2014, whilst UK insurers are already offering favourable insurance groupings on vehicles fitted with AEB as standard.
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