Manufacturers will make room in cars to install a black boxas in airplanes. This device records all the driving parameters during an accident and will make it easier to identify the circumstances of a road departure or a collision. Frédéric Landelle is the president of the union of car dealerships in Mayenne: “It’s a small electronic box that will record, in the event of an impact, the 30 seconds before and the 10 seconds after the impact. We will then know if there are any anomalies and find out the reasons for an accident, whether it is a problem related to the operation of the car or a human error”.
The objective, with this integrated black box, is to put a stop to bad driving behavior and therefore to reduce the number of people killed or injured on the road.
Other device now mandatory on a new car: an intelligent braking system“you are driving, speed stabilized, and in front of a car braking or slowing down, you did not notice it. Your car detects this slowing down, this braking and the system will adapt the speed according to what is happening in front of you”. An innovation hailed by road safety, a third of fatal accidents are caused by excessive speed. It will be, however, possible, and quite legally, to deactivate this system at startup.