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All new vehicles sold in the US would be required to have a “more effective” version of automatic emergency braking under a new rule proposed by the Department of Transportation.
The Biden administration plans to mandate "ore effective” automatic emergency braking in all cars that is more effective at higher speeds and at night.
All new light-duty vehicles would come equipped with automatic braking within four years of the rule being finalized.
The rule would save 360 lives and prevent 24,000 crashes a year, NHTSA says.
Congress says the Biden administration has been slow to adopt new, more realistic female crash test dummies. One issue: money.