

The data came from accident reporting from OEMs as required by the NHTSA’s Standing General Order for the first time in 2021, updated in April 2023. It is still difficult to point out the actual reason for the crashes because of the expertise and data required for a thorough investigation and determination.

“The reports give crash statistics, which manufacturers were involved, and the consequences. “NHTSA publishes periodic reports about ADAS-related crashes for Autonomous Driving Level 2 and Level 3 to 5 vehicles,” noted Thierry Kouthon, technical product manager for security IP at Rambus.

However, a report by National Public Radio revealed that in the span of less than a year in the 2021/2022 time frame, nearly 400 crashes (including 273 involving Teslas), occurred from vehicles equipped with automated driver-assist technologies.
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The potential benefits of autonomous vehicles include increasing safety by reducing traffic jams and accidents, easing congestion to decrease air pollution, lowering driver fatigue, and bringing mobility to those unable to drive conventional cars.Īs V2X matures, vehicles will be able to communicate with each other, and will slow down automatically when there is an accident or road hazard ahead without any human intervention. NHSTA proposed using driver assistance technologies to help reduce the number of accidents. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that more than 42,795 fatal accidents occurred in 2022. Reaction to other drivers’ reckless or wrong way driving also can happen too late to avoid accidents.Īccording to a 2014 consumer report, human errors caused 90% of the traffic accidents that resulted in crashes.
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Quite often drivers cannot react quickly enough. When drivers detect objects in front of the vehicle, the automatic reaction is to slam on the brakes or swerve to avoid them. Humans rely on seeing and hearing to assess driving conditions. Autonomous vehicles keep crashing into things, even though ADAS technology promises to make driving safer because machines can think and react faster than human drivers.
