I was saying for a while now, that we could probably reduce 90% of accidents by ...

		gambiting on Nov 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days... I was saying for a while now, that we could probably reduce 90% of accidents by mandating that every car is fitted with a device that almost every new car has as an option - an automatic breaking system, which stops the car in case of imminent collision, based on a forward facing radar. I imagine it would reduce accidents in cities to near zero, and outside of them by an order of magnitude.

NHTSA and the US car industry are planning on making that mandatory a few years down the line.