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 throughout the United States: from that date, no car without this innovative safety system can 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 the constant monitoring of the road by a series of radar, laser and camera sensors, theAutomatic Emergency Braking will allow the vehicle to brake automatically in the event of the driver's distraction or inertia in response to the possible collision warnings transmitted by the system.
Thus, the technology itself will avoid rear-end collisions or collisions with pedestrians, cyclists and in some cases even animals; In fact, depending on the speed of the vehicle, the safety distance from other vehicles and the speed of the event, AEB can avoid the impact or greatly limit its effects.
But there are also those who highlight the risks of a car that is too "technological". The IT 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 capable of accessing all parts of the system, the risk to consumer security could increase significantly if the access resulted in the ability to manipulate critical vehicle control systems.”