The future of cars in the United States focuses on safety. Since September 2022, XNUMX, in fact, the electronic system of braking automatic standard will be mandatory in all states United: from that date, no car without this innovative safety system will be able to be sold.
The novelty comes thanks to a voluntary agreement between 20 manufacturers and the NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the United States Department of Transportation and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). How will the new technology work? Thanks to monitoring of the road carried out constantly by a series of radar sensors, lasers and cameras, theAutomatic Emergency Braking will allow the vehicle to brake automatically in the event of the driver's distraction or inertia following warnings of a possible collision transmitted by the system.
Thus, technology itself will avoid it rear-end collisions or investments of pedestrians, cyclists and in some cases also of animals; In fact, depending on the speed of the vehicle, the safety distance from other vehicles and the speed of the event, the AEB can avoid the impact or limit it. many effects.
But there are also those who highlight the risks of a car that is too "technological". The computer system, as we know, is in fact always at risk of hacking. And the FBI and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have recently warned drivers about what can happen if their car is infected remotely: "While the vulnerability does not always result in an attack that can access all parts of the system, the risk to consumer security could increase significantly if access resulted in the ability to manipulate critical vehicle control systems”.
