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In the old days, the active safety with the horse, if you drove. Any risk would be missed by drivers caught by the radar system, the horses, and has stopped.

It took a while ', but the automatic braking function is now a growing number of cars available, not only is the imagination. Order a new Ford Focus with a service package option and will be driving with a bulky piece of plastic in front of the mirror that hides a laser. This constantly scans the road, and if they have a machine that did not stop spies, send an early warning system for the brakes, and you come to a complete stop.

The device in question is one of the simplest forms of what we are asked to AEB, or emergency call, regardless, and is the next big thing in security.

"We assume, will cross the board, such as ESC," Colin Grover, said project engineer at the Center for Automotive Research, Thatcham. Berkshire-based testing center has been very influential in the profile of the ESC, also known as electronic stability control, which sells mandatory on all new cars in Europe.

Thatcham now applies the same rigorous testing and evaluation methods for autonomous emergency braking, and I would not bet against the fact that a legal requirement for all cars in the future.

In studies with the University of Loughborough on the potential benefits, Thatcham calculated that if every car was equipped, 64 deaths and 650 serious injuries could be avoided each year in the United Kingdom, with less than 2,700 pedestrian victims. To identify the cars and because the systems are trained to help people see the street.

"People are unique in their form, we saw a round head on a square-ish body -. We're pretty simple," says Grover