While I wouldn't dispute that advances in safety features and changes in car design have massively reduced fatalities - along with enforcement of existing laws and changes in driver behaviour - that graph shows no benefit from the introduction of lane departure warning systems as the rate of decline has remained roughly constant since 2012 (pandemic weirdness aside).
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My first two cars even had no seat belts. Fun fact - one of them was a MG.I remember a time many years ago when you could just get in the car, put on your seat belt, start the engine and drive off....those were the days.
My copy of the manual says that White is the colour of the Ready state, changing to Green when active.
It does? I just make sure it's yellow every time I drive.
And falling asleep on motorways is probably one of the contributory factors to those stats.
I'm not a fan of LKA myself (apart from on longer motorway journeys) but having worked in the Traffic / Transport Consultancy business for many years I've seen the Motorway Accident Stats on falling asleep at the wheel and recognise why all these safety features are being introduced. I'm afraid we will all either have to accept them or just buy and and maintain an older car that has not got them. They are only going to increase in the future too !!
An extract from a Journal of Safety Research on Motoway Accidents :-
"Driver fatigue appears to be one of the most often reported factors in road accidents. According to Karrer and Roetting (2007) falling asleep at the wheel is one of the leading causes of fatal accidents and injuries, accounting for up to 15–20% of all traffic accidents in developed countries. However, it is often overlooked in police reports, as some drivers are deceased in the accidents, while surviving ones may be unwilling to admit that they may have been asleep (Corfitsen 1999)........."
Source :-
Exploring the factors affecting motorway accident severity in England using the generalised ordered logistic regression model
The severity of motorway accidents that occurred on the hard shoulder (HS) is higher than for the main carriageway (MC). This paper compares and contr…www.sciencedirect.com
That's because you view the world through rose-coloured plastic lenses after your cataract removal.
Yep, that graph you posted points to a steady decline in road deaths over the last 20 years but that can be hardly attributed to LKA assist features etc. as they haven't been around that long and in some cases are more likely to cause an accident rather than prevent it based on some comments here.
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Yep, I remember it well as it was local to me. Guy in a Land Rover fell asleep/was very drowsy and veered off the M62, down an embankment and onto the train tracks, causing two trains to crash with fatalities.
I don't disagree with your comments but please have a read of the article below and tell me if you think LKA could have prevented this disaster? LKA is just one of many safety features that if well implemented could have prevented the tragic disaster below IMHO.
As said in the article above "Driver fatigue appears to be one of the most often reported factors in road accidents. According to Karrer and Roetting (2007) falling asleep at the wheel is one of the leading causes of fatal accidents and injuries,"
