Safety features that help drivers avoid front-end collisions by braking autonomously and headlights that help guide vehicles around corners are, indeed, reducing crashes, according to insurance claim analyses by the Highway Loss Data Institute, an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

via Auto Crash-Avoidance Technology Found to Reduce Collisions – ABC News.

But analyses of another safety feature were not so promising. Technology that warns drivers when it is unsafe to leave their lane is, in some cases, increasing the number of crashes.

Lane-departure warnings, which tell drivers when they are drifting out of their lane, were associated with increased collision and property-damage liability insurance claims as well as increased injuries to occupants of the insured vehicle.

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