The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a lobbying group for the U.S. auto industry, has asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to reconsider its recent final rule mandating automated emergency braking (AEB) systems in vehicles.
Meeting the standards set out in the rules is “practically impossible with available technology,” the alliance wrote in a letter to Congress sent June 24. “NHTSA’s own data shows only one tested vehicle met the stopping distance requirements in the final rule.”
John Bozzella, president and CEO of the alliance, warned that if AEB-equipped vehicles were on the road in the United States in compliance with NHTSA’s new standards, driving would become “unpredictable, erratic“ and the new system would ”frustrate or flummox drivers.” […]
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