New Safety Feature Coming To All Vehicles By 2029, Here’s What We Know

The future of driving is going to be getting safer by 2029. In May of this year the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration "finalized a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard  that will make automatic emergency braking, including pedestrian AEB, standard on all passenger cars, SUVs, and light trucks by September 2029." What does that mean? Well in theory it will reduce the number of collisions at both low and high speeds. Here's what we know about the new automotive safety standard.

According to the United States Department of Transportation's press release, this is what the standard will offer:

"The standard requires all new cars, starting in 2029, to include technology that can stop and avoid contact with a vehicle in front of them when traveling up to 62 miles per hour and to be able to detect pedestrians in both daylight and darkness. In addition, the standard requires that the system apply the brakes automatically up to 90 mph when a collision with a lead vehicle is imminent, and up to 45 mph when a pedestrian is detected. Some vehicles being sold today already offer this maturing technology as an add-on feature, but the new rule makes this life-saving technology standard and more effective."  

It's unclear what this new technology will cost to implement in all vehicles by 2029.

What I worry about is knowing that this technology is going into our cars, are we going to get 'worse' at driving knowing that the car will 'stop' itself if something is in the road?

You can read more about the pros and cons of AEB, Automatic Emergency Braking, by heading here.