The Transportation Department projects the new rule could save 360 lives a year and prevent 24,000 injuries.

The Biden administration plans to require that all new cars and trucks come with pedestrian-collision avoidance systems that include automatic emergency braking technology by the end of the decade.

In an interview, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the requirement is designed to reduce pedestrian deaths, which have been on the rise in the post-Covid 19 era.

The new standards will require all cars to avoid contact at up to 62 mph and mandate that they must be able to detect pedestrians in the dark. They will also require braking at up to 45 mph when a pedestrian is detected.

The Transportation Department projects the rule could save 360 lives a year and prevent 24,000 injuries.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    How is this spam?

    The Biden administration plans to require that all new cars and trucks come with pedestrian-collision avoidance systems that include automatic emergency braking technology by the end of the decade.

    This sounds like a good idea.

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      7 months ago

      If the tech doesn’t suck.

      My collision avoidance false positives all the time which scares the shit out of me so it’s never on.

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        7 months ago

        I don’t know about the tech because my car doesn’t have it, but I have no idea how this article would qualify as spam.