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For: Klon Perez Updated 02 May 2022, 10: 08 am EDT
In the world of motorsports, technological advances, connectivity, efficiency and safety have evolved by leaps and bounds in recent years with the great aim of improving our quality of life.
Today one of the great goals of the industry is to grow in what vehicles can offer in terms of driving assistance, also seeking to increase the security.
Therefore it is also good to know how long it can take an automated system to react for us in the face of imminent danger, compared to if everything were left in the hands of humans.
Driving assistance was born several years ago as equipment that was destined exclusively for very high-end cars, but as has happened with most technologies, including that used in high-end cars, races such as Formula One, has been gradually reaching more models.
Thanks to the constant monitoring of radars and cameras, the faster technology reaction time. The system takes only 0.3 seconds to act. According to studies conducted in the US, people take between 0.75 and 1.5 seconds to do something before a emergency situation.
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials says that the average reaction time in the general population is 2.5 seconds.
The purpose of all assistance is in no way to replace the human behind the wheel, but to improve handling and make much safer because the system is capable of detecting risk situations by acting more quickly.
Although the difference between the reaction of the human being and the technological tools does not seem so much, the difference is vital when we talk about a car that only goes to 13 miles per hour, is capable of traveling double without help.
In addition, the human reaction time is also determined by others factors such as fatigue, tiredness, stress or visibility of the road and its obstacles. In some parts of the world these attendance requirements are beginning to be mandatory, in fact to be qualified with five stars, they must have them.
Studies that have been carried out in China state that if the 100 % of cars will have the advanced assistance technology system, fatalities will be reduced by 13.2% and injuries 9.1%. They also state that in the last 000 years have been avoided more than 120,000 mishaps.
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