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front to rear crashes like this are
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becoming less common thanks to automatic
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emergency braking more and more vehicles
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are now equipped with that technology
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which uses a combination of radar and
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cameras to detect objects we evaluated
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30 vehicles um and of those uh 16
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received one of our top ratings of
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either good or acceptable uh and that's
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a big improvement from the vehicles we
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tested last year back then I reported
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there was a much higher failure rate we
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found seven crash avoidance systems
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struggled at the higher test speeds of
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31 37 and 43 M an hour how do you
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account for that increase in performance
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all of the vehicles now have these front
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crash prevention systems that look
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forward um but they're constantly adding
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uh more targets uh having them work at
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higher speeds a few years back these
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tests were conducted at a maximum speed
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of 25 M an hour but with more and more
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traffic on the roads traveling at higher
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speeds the iihs upped its standards
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requiring a vehicle to avoid a collision
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at a maximum speed of 43 M
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hour avoiding motorcycles was the
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biggest stumbling block for vehicles
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which didn't rate well those types of
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crashes are responsible for more than
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200 motorcyclist deaths annually here in
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the United States with the systems that
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did poorly all the way around what do
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you think the fix is you know you know
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improving potentially the software you
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know to recognize more targets to work
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at higher speeds some of them may even
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have some outdated Hardware in most of
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the tests The Institute uses collapsible
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motorcycles but they use a real tractor
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trailer and the driver then has to
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Swerve to avoid it I wanted to know if
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that swerving affects the accuracy of
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the test our requirement um is is around
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2 seconds and so you know if we don't
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see a warning by that time our driver
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still has plenty of time to to swerve
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around and we can evaluate you know
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whether it was a timely warning or not
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federal Regulators are currently looking
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at requiring collision avoidance at
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speeds much higher than 43 M an hour but
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right now automakers are resisant but as
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we move closer and closer to fully
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autonomous self-driving Vehicles Meeting
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those standards is going to become a
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necessity down the road working for you
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I'm the consumer guy Steve SP oh
