Car Safety Ratings May Get Boost for Driver-Assistance Technology
- NHTSA is proposing updates to its New Car Assessment Program
- Program awards scores based on five-star scale for new cars
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The U.S. government’s annual safety ratings of cars may soon give them credit for having driver-assistance systems, the latest indication that the once-futuristic technology is becoming mainstream.
The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed on Thursday that lane-keeping support, automatic emergency braking, blind spot detection and blind spot intervention be incorporated into its Five-Star Safety Ratings program for new cars.