Limit common injuries
The three most common causes of personal injury due to a car accident can coincidentally be prevented very well with driver assistance systems.
According to the Dutch Association of Insurers, driver assistance systems can reduce the risk of accidents by 30 to 40 percent. It is therefore felt that ‘the impact of these systems cannot be underestimated’. It can not only help in the fight against ever-increasing insurance premiums for motorists, but also prevent casualties.
Insurer TVM uses its own data to distinguish the three most common causes of personal injury in traffic. Those are; driving from behind, changing lanes and turning right with someone in the blind spot. Driver assistance systems can be of great value here. Driving into the back of someone can sometimes be prevented with an automatic braking assistant, the chance of a collision by changing lanes is reduced with blind spot detection and this also applies to a collision with a person in that blind spot.
TVM emphasizes that the proper functioning of driver assistance systems goes hand in hand with understanding what the systems do.” Having technical aids including driver assistance systems does not automatically mean their (proper) use. Understanding and correctly using these systems deserves extra attention in our opinion. message,” said TVM CEO Michel Verwoest. In this area, information not only lies with car salesmen, for example, but also with the insurers themselves. TVM gives in a special greenpaper what relevant driver assistance systems can mean for safety.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl