{"id":9204,"date":"2016-07-21T01:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=285167"},"modified":"2016-07-21T05:09:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T05:09:54","slug":"why-partially-automated-cars-should-be-deployed-in-light-duty-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2016\/07\/21\/why-partially-automated-cars-should-be-deployed-in-light-duty-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Why partially automated cars should be deployed in ‘light-duty vehicles’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crash avoidance technologies now available\u00a0in non-luxury vehicles include Lane Departure Warning (LDW), Forward Collision Warning (FCW), and Blind Spot Monitoring Roadway (BSM). (credit: Corey D. Harper et al.\/Accident Analysis and Prevention)<\/p><\/div>\n

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief Mark Rosekind said at a conference today (July 20) that the government “will not abandon efforts to speed the development of self-driving cars … to reduce the 94 percent of car crashes attributed to human error, despite a fatal accident involving a Tesla Model S operating on an autopilot system,” Reuters reports<\/a>. But autonomous vehicles must be “much safer” than human drivers before they are deployed on U.S. roads, he added.<\/p>\n

However, Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering<\/a> researchers suggest that already-available partially automated vehicle crash-avoidance technologies are a practical interim solution, they conclude in a study published in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention<\/em>.<\/p>\n

These technologies — which include forward collision warning and avoidance, lane departure warning, blind spot monitoring, and partially autonomous braking or controls — are already available in non-luxury vehicles such as the Honda Accord and Mazda CX-9. If these technologies were deployed in all “light-duty vehicles,” it could prevent or reduce the severity of up 1.3 million crashes a year, including 10,100 fatal wrecks, according to the study.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there is much discussion about driverless vehicles, we have demonstrated that even with partial automation, there are financial and safety benefits,\u201d says Chris T. Hendrickson<\/a>, director of the Carnegie Mellon\u00a0Traffic21 Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the team compared the price of equipping cars with safety technology to the expected annual reduction in the costs of crashes (based on government and insurance industry data), they discovered a net cost benefit (in addition to life-saving benefits) in two scenarios:<\/p>\n