Anti-rollover Technology To Be Required On All Cars

小小 · Sep 16, 2006

WASHINGTON — New cars, SUVs and other vehicles will need to have anti-rollover technology by the 2012 model year, the government says, predicting the change will prevent thousands of deaths a year.

While seat belts and air bags protect in a crash, the technology can help drivers avoid an accident in the first place. It senses when a driver may lose control of the vehicle and automatically applies brakes to individual wheels to help make it stable.

Rollover crashes are extremely dangerous, leading to more than 10,000 deaths a year, even though they only account for about 3 percent of all crashes. More than 43,000 people are killed on U.S. roads annually.

"No other safety technology since the seat belt holds as much promise to save as many lives and prevent as many injuries as electronic stability control," Nicole Nason, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said Thursday.

Electronic stability control could save between 5,300 and 10,300 lives each year and prevent up to 252,000 injuries annually, the agency said.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has said 10,000 deaths could be avoided annually with the technology.

They said it cut the risk of single-vehicle rollovers involving sport-utility vehicles by 80 percent.

General Motors said nearly two years ago it would make the technology standard in all vehicles by 2010, including all SUVs and some full-size pickups in the 2007 model year.

Ford Motor said this week it would put stability control on its entire lineup by the end of 2009. Toyota Motor said Thursday stability control would be standard on its models by 2009.

All 2007 SUVs, pickups and minivans produced by Honda Motor carry the technology while Hyundai Motor Co. said it was standard equipment on 70 percent of its 2007 vehicles
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From: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003259519_rollover15.html

小小 · Sep 16, 2006

My question is will there still be any petrol left by the time we reach 2012, should really pull the model year down

since petrol prices are rising like a b!tch recently <_<

Knoctur_nal · Sep 16, 2006

u and ur crazy topics drag..haha...

小小 · Sep 16, 2006

y not hahaha somebody has to do it -lol

i thought these weird topics be more interesting ... in a way ^^"

Knoctur_nal · Sep 16, 2006

buddy..its def interesting...and i wonder..by 2012..hell..i bet we'll still be using gas..aaaha...

yarg11 · Sep 17, 2006

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dragonash_se7en · Sep 19, 2006

i hope this won;t further increase all the car prices,,,, i can;t afford if a car if the price go up again

yeeman22 · Sep 27, 2006

woot my G35 already has this tech on it
no need to wait
=P

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