Take Simple Route to Cutting Crashes

Leading insurance-owned research body, Thatcham Research, is calling on UK fleet operators to make a decisive shift to buying only cars with Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) as real-world data, released today, shows it reduces rear-end crashes by 38 per cent.

A report from Euro NCAP and ANCAP, the independent safety bodies for Europe and Australasia, today (13 May) announced that low speed AEB technology leads to a 38% reduction in real-world rear-end crashes and that there is no significant difference between urban and rural crash benefits. Read more here.