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The Growing Proof That Autonomous Cars Save Lives
Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t necessarily make roads safer. When it comes to partial or full autonomy, the picture isn’t entirely clear, in part because there aren’t enough self-driving cars to make meaningful apples-to-apples comparisons. Yet mounting research suggests that self-driving cars crash significantly less often than people, and with far fewer injuries. Evidence also shows the building blocks of autonomy, including advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS—which are already mandated on every new car—are also reducing occupant and pedestrian injuries and deaths, along with insurance claims. On the ADAS front, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems that recognize people in front of the car cut pedestrian crashes by 27 percent. A
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Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t necessarily make roads safer. When it comes to partial or full autonomy, the picture isn’t entirely clear, in part because there aren’t enough self-driving cars to make meaningful apples-to-apples comparisons. Yet mounting research suggests that self-driving cars crash significantly less often than people, and with far fewer injuries. Evidence also shows the building blocks of autonomy, including advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS—which are already mandated on every new car—are also reducing occupant and pedestrian injuries and deaths, along with insurance claims. On the ADAS front, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems that recognize people in front of the car cut pedestrian crashes by 27 percent. A
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According to IEEE Spectrum’s source item, The Growing Proof That Autonomous Cars Save Lives, Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t necessarily make roads safer. When it comes to partial or full autonomy, the picture isn’t entirely clear, in part because there aren’t enough self-driving cars to make meaningful apples-to-apples comparisons. Yet mounting research suggests that self-driving cars crash significantly less often than people, and with far fewer injuries. Evidence also shows the building blocks of autonomy, including advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS—which are already mandated on every new car—are also reducing occupant and pedestrian injuries and deaths, along with insurance claims. On the ADAS front, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems that recognize people in front of the car cut pedestrian crashes by 27 percent. A
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