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Mar 18, 2016

TECHNO CARS * USA: Automatic brakes standard by 2022

*  California - 99 % Auto makers set to adopt advanced technology

-- Auto makers representing 99% of U.S. light-vehicle sales will pledge to car-safety regulators and the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on Thursday that the technology will be on nearly all their cars and trucks by September 2022, the people said... General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co., Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG are among the car makers making the pledge, one of the people said. Others doing so include luxury car manufacturers BMW AG, Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen’s Audi, this person said... The pledge, expected to be unveiled at a news conference Thursday in McLean, Va., with auto makers, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and insurance institute, follows an initial promise from some car companies in September to eventually make the braking technology standard... Automatic emergency-braking systems use vehicle sensors including cameras, radars and lasers to detect imminent crashes. The systems then warn motorists before engaging brakes automatically if the driver doesn’t react quickly enough... Regulators have been pushing car makers to put the technology on more vehicles to help cut down on traffic fatalities. Other automated technologies popping up on vehicles include lane-departure warnings, collision warnings and systems designed to steer cars back when they veer out of lanes on roadways... The technologies are harbingers of fully driverless cars... 
(PHOTO: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES - A 2016 Honda Civic on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November. Honda is among auto makers expected to make a pledge on automatic emergency-braking systems) -- Los Angeles, CAL, USA - The WSJ, by MIKE SPECTOR - March 16, 2016

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