Stomp The Brakes, US Road Safety Rules Requires Automatic Braking By 2029
Ever drive a new car and see that it slows itself down when you get close to the car in front of you? That's an automatic emergency braking (AEB) system, something that automakers 'voluntarily' started putting in all vehicles.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is requiring all cars to be able to stop and avoid contact with the car in front of them at 62 mph. Automakers see this as an impossible task.
Large auto insurance co-op AAA released a research report showing that newer cars with AEB (2024) were twice as likely to avoid a collision than a 2017 vehicle at speeds of 34 mile per hour.
These newer systems use both camera and radar. What most people don't realize is the radar emits extremely high frequency mmWave technology typically above 50 Ghz.
Doing some research I found AEB radar companies advertising anywhere from 60-80 GHz. The average radiation coming from a microwave oven is about 2.5 GHz - most people are sitting next to something emitting far more dense radiation. And type of radiation is going to be all over our roadways.
Yes the NHTSA suggests in their studies that AEB systems can lower rear-end crashes by 49%, but at what cost to our long term health?
As Bioinitiative 2012 points out, "Health consequences have not been identified nor been factored into public safety limits" for new 5G wireless technologies. There is already a mountain of studies indicating negative bioeffects for the lower frequencies.
Can we find a better way to prevent accidents besides surveillance and extreme radiation?
I'm going to be holding onto my old car for as long as possible.
Original story:
Automatic Braking Systems Save Lives. Now They’ll Need to Work at 62 MPH
https://www.wired.com/story/automatic-emergency-braking-systems-62-mph/
A better idea instead of taking over our responsibilities as fully functioning human beings, is to return to actually TEACHING DRIVERS ED. If tailgating is the problem then why not actually teach and require ONE car length per 10 miles of speed. I had excellent drivers ed. Now, again again, I watch in horror, drivers who tailgate with one car length in front of them while going 70mph. And speaking of, how about the meaning of "merging," being taught again. Those merging onto the highway, oops, I gave the clue, are required to speed up, slow down or STOP, in order to not force those already on the highway and going 65 mph, to swerve into the faster lanes. My god, we have become stupid. More tech taking over our lives is the road to hell. Take it back, OUR OWN BRAINS.
Definitely with you on the part about keeping an older car on the road. What we really need is the ability to hack our cars, even if it means swapping and removing some systems. Such changes may also be good for performance and/or efficiency modifications. I stick to older cars and I do modify them, as well. The government has not been a friend to people like me.