Current Event for Week of 9/18/06
Feds to require stability control on all vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced
that it will require all car manufactures to install electronic
stability control on all vehicles by 2012. Electronic Stability Control
(ESC) uses a variety of sensors to detect when a car is a skid or
rollover is happening, or is about to happen, because of hard cornering
or slippery road conditions.
The proposed rule would require all manufacturers to equip passenger
vehicles under 10,000 pounds with ESC starting with the 2009 model year
and to have the feature available as standard equipment on all vehicles
by the 2012 model year. Several studies have shown ESC to be extremely
effective in preventing the most dangerous types of crashes. ESC tends
to prevent more single-vehicle crashes, which usually involve a vehicle
running off the road, the study found, but it also helps prevent the
most serious, high-speed multi-vehicle crashes. The technology had
little effect on less serious "fender bender" crashes, presumably
because those types of crashes usually do not involve loss of vehicle
control.
Read the article here.
About 43,000 people are killed in auto crashes in the United States each
year. The agency estimates that ESC will save between 5,300 and 10,300
lives annually and prevent between 168,000 and 252,000 injuries.
Do you think that ESC will help to prevent major car crashes and save
lives? Do you think that the cost of this requirement will be put on the
consumers?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced
that it will require all car manufactures to install electronic
stability control on all vehicles by 2012. Electronic Stability Control
(ESC) uses a variety of sensors to detect when a car is a skid or
rollover is happening, or is about to happen, because of hard cornering
or slippery road conditions.
The proposed rule would require all manufacturers to equip passenger
vehicles under 10,000 pounds with ESC starting with the 2009 model year
and to have the feature available as standard equipment on all vehicles
by the 2012 model year. Several studies have shown ESC to be extremely
effective in preventing the most dangerous types of crashes. ESC tends
to prevent more single-vehicle crashes, which usually involve a vehicle
running off the road, the study found, but it also helps prevent the
most serious, high-speed multi-vehicle crashes. The technology had
little effect on less serious "fender bender" crashes, presumably
because those types of crashes usually do not involve loss of vehicle
control.
Read the article here.
About 43,000 people are killed in auto crashes in the United States each
year. The agency estimates that ESC will save between 5,300 and 10,300
lives annually and prevent between 168,000 and 252,000 injuries.
Do you think that ESC will help to prevent major car crashes and save
lives? Do you think that the cost of this requirement will be put on the
consumers?
posted by cldaily at 7:37 AM
1 Comments:
I think that requiring car makers to have ESC on cars will help to prevent accidents.
I've been in a situation where the ESC on my car helped to prevent me from going off the road and going into a ditch.
Since this is already on alot of cars, I don't think that the burden of it being put on all cars would be passed onto the consumer.
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