We Brake for Research: Public Statement about a New Auto Safety Feature The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent organization dedicated to reducing deaths and injuries from crashes...

We Brake for Research: Public Statement about a New Auto Safety Feature

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent organization dedicated to reducing deaths and injuries from crashes on U.S. highways. The IIHS conducts a wide range of research to solve these problems, including the testing of new automobile safety features. The IIHS released this public statement about one of its research studies:

About half of the 28,000 fatal passenger-vehicle crashes that occur each year involve a single vehicle. Equipping cars and SUVs with electronic stability control (ESC) can reduce the risk of involvement in these crashes by more than 50 percent. The effect on all single-vehicle crashes (fatal and nonfatal) is somewhat less (about 40 percent), and the effect on multiple-vehicle crashes is much less. These are the main findings of a new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study comparing crash rates for cars and SUVs with and without ESC. ESC is an extension of antilock brake technology, which has speed sensors and independent braking for each wheel. For ESC, additional sensors continuously monitor how well a vehicle is responding to a driver’s steering input. These sensors detect when a vehicle is about to stray from the driver’s intended line of travel (that is, lose control), which usually occurs in high-speed maneuvers or on slippery roads. Then ESC brakes individual wheels automatically to keep the vehicle under control.*

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