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What’s Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB)?

It’s safer, it’s cutting-edge, and pretty soon it will become standard in new vehicles. It’s called Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) and is being praised as one of the most important advances in automotive safety technology.

At Service King Deer Valley in Phoenix, AZ we are always amazed about new innovations of car technology, and AEB surely qualifies.

In short, AEB automatically applies a vehicle’s brakes when it detects an object in front of the vehicle, in order to avoid or reduce the overall severity of a collision and vehicles with AEB have 50% fewer front-to-rear collisions and an even much lower risk of front-to-rear collisions with injuries than autos without the technology, according to the well-known non-profit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

If you ask David Aylor, manager of active safety testing at IIHS a question, you will always get a direct response:  “Front-to-rear collisions are the most common, so if we are able to cut those by 50%, that is a huge impact on society.

Last year, AEB systems are currently offered as standard equipment on 30% of new vehicles, reports AAA, and more than 40% as an option. But the feature eventually will be universal—20 carmakers representing more than 99 percent of the auto market in this country have agreed to make AEB a standard feature on virtually all new vehicles by 2024.

Different vehicles use AEB in different ways, but in all of them, the concept is the same. If any driver doesn’t react to the warning signal, the technology steps in and takes control.

Greg Brannon, Director of Automotive Engineering & Industry Relations for AAA, weighed in on AEB, you and me. “Some AEB systems will do everything in their power to come to a complete stop to avoid the collision.” Brannon has studied the technology extensively and shared the fact that others will scrub just a couple miles per hour off before colliding with a vehicle — even though it is detected it.”

Some AEB systems also can detect pedestrians in front of the vehicle while some can't. So it is very important for a driver to understand how his or her own auto’s system will react to upcoming obstacles.

Adding to potential customer confusion, meanwhile, carmakers have different names for their AEB systems. Buick and Cadillac use the terminology “Forward Collision, Alert,” while Audi calls it “pre-sense front” or “pre-sense city,” for example.

But whichever system you have , as with any car safety technology, please keep in mind that AEB is not meant to replace a focused and engaged driver.

Service King Deer Valley in Phoenix, AZ 85027

Sources: AARP and AOL

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