Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Manufacturers made it standard before government agencies got around to telling them to. Formal requirements came long afterwards—in Europe in 2004 and in the United States in 2012. Deferring to the guy behind the wheel checks a lot of boxes—human pride, legal niggling, and the engineer’s fear of false positives.
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