ANCAP And AMA Combine To Launch New Road Safety Campaign

The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) have joined forces to push for increased safety technology in new cars.

The pair will this week launch ‘Avoid The Crash, Avoid The Trauma’, which calls on Australia’s lawmakers to consider rules which shift technical advancements in safety from the options list to standard fitment.

Among other things, ANCAP has its sights set firmly on Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB), and has called on the Federal Government to make the technology compulsory.

This is not the first time ANCAP has spruiked the benefits of AEB, with the Program citing a study in May which claimed the technology has led to a 38 percent reduction in ‘real world’ rear-end collisions.  

In the words of ANCAP: “AEB systems use camera and sensor technology to detect the speed and distance of objects in a vehicle’s path, and automatically brake if the driver does not respond.”

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