Road accidents could be cut by a quarter with installation of ADAS

The team from Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software at University of Limerick (UL) and Motion-S, Luxembourg also found Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) to be the most impactful technology, reducing three out of the four most frequent accident categories: intersection (28 per cent), rear-end (27.7 per cent), and pedestrian accidents (28.4 per cent).

Based on publicly-available road safety reports from the UK for 2019, the research team estimates that a full deployment of ADAS would reduce accident frequency in the UK by 23.8 per cent, representing an annual decrease of 18,925 accidents.

In a statement, Dr Barry Sheehan of Lero at UL said: “Our research suggests that introducing ADAS across all vehicles would lower the number of road crashes. Furthermore, accidents happening in the two most frequent contexts can be reduced by 29 per cent. That means a reduction of 7,020 accidents on urban roads with clear weather and daylight conditions and 3,472 on rural roads with clear weather and daylight conditions.”