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Originally Posted by dcb
Unfortunately the accident avoidance system is largely the driver and attendent attention span and entitlement choices. If you are mashing on the pedal, mawing a burger, texting your lady from your 8 foot wide road hog, you are going to hit a few people.
Adding safety "features" to a car that already seems to have predominantly safe drivers won't really demonstrate anything.
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I'm not so sure having looked at a lot of Prius accidents and compared the various systems that automatically apply the brakes. The Toyota system has optical, lane following, and radar, object detection. My reading of the accidents indicate that we are looking at 1/3d of these accidents might have been prevented or certainly lower impact velocities if the cars had the Toyota collision avoidance systems. To see what I mean and this is not for the faint of heart or those who can't deal with a deadly reality but this is what I've been tracking.
Bob Wilson
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Last edited by bwilson4web; 06-06-2011 at 05:48 PM..
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