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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/research-shows-lane-departure-warnings-114903158.html
Automotive research showing the life-saving benefits of a host of advanced safety systems is starting to pile up, with the latest study concluding that lane-departure warning systems reduce car crashes—saving lives and reducing injuries.
The new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that if all U.S. passenger vehicles were equipped in 2015 with a lane-departure warning system, nearly 85,000 crashes and more than 55,000 injuries would have been prevented that year.
Points for Safety Systems
The technology, growing in popularity and availability, alerts drivers with an audible, visible, or tactile warning (seat or steering wheel shakes) if the driver lets the vehicle drift out of its lane.
Other crash-avoidance systems, such as forward-collision warning and automatic emergency braking, have shown the same kind of dramatic impact on reducing crashes, but until now there wasn’t clear data showing the effect of lane warnings.
Automotive research showing the life-saving benefits of a host of advanced safety systems is starting to pile up, with the latest study concluding that lane-departure warning systems reduce car crashes—saving lives and reducing injuries.
The new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that if all U.S. passenger vehicles were equipped in 2015 with a lane-departure warning system, nearly 85,000 crashes and more than 55,000 injuries would have been prevented that year.
Points for Safety Systems
The technology, growing in popularity and availability, alerts drivers with an audible, visible, or tactile warning (seat or steering wheel shakes) if the driver lets the vehicle drift out of its lane.
Other crash-avoidance systems, such as forward-collision warning and automatic emergency braking, have shown the same kind of dramatic impact on reducing crashes, but until now there wasn’t clear data showing the effect of lane warnings.
