Safer cars? Keep the driver, but have him do less
Aiming for accident-free driving, carmakers try out technical features that will make vehicles costlier
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AS millions of cars are under recall for potentially lethal air bags, designers are trying to reduce the need for the device - using sensors, radar, cameras and lasers to prevent collisions in the first place.
With driver error blamed for over 90 per cent of road accidents, the thinking is it would be better to have them do less of the driving. The US- based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that forward-collision warning systems cut vehicle-to- vehicle crashes by 7 per cent - not a quantum leap, but a potential life saver. Nearly 31,000 people died in car accidents in 2012 in the US alone.
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