NEW YORK. Over the course of 10 months, nearly 400 road accidents in the United States involved advanced driver assistance technologies. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the federal government’s primary automotive safety agency, revealed this, as reported by the New York Times, in its first large-scale data publication regarding these systems. In 392 incidents from 1 July last year to 15 May, six people died and five were seriously injured.
Teslas operating on autopilot, the more ambitious fully autonomous driving mode or one of the associated component characteristics were involved in 273 accidents. The data is part of a vast agency effort to determine the safety of driving systems as they become more common.
In addition to the futuristic allure of self-driving cars, in fact, in recent years dozens of car manufacturers have launched automated components, including some that allow you to take your hands off the wheel under certain conditions and help you park. Honda vehicles were involved in 90 accidents and Subaru vehicles 10, while Ford Motor, General Motors, BMW, Volkswagen, Toyota, Hyundai and Porsche each reported five or fewer accidents. ‘These technologies hold great promise for improving safety, but we need to understand how vehicles behave in the real world,’ explained Steven Cliff, director of the agency: ‘This will help our researchers quickly identify potential trends in emerging defects. “.