FORGIVEN
More than 90 per cent of road crashes are caused by “human mistakes”, according to Euro NCAP. This includes nearly every type of driver behaviour, from law breaking — speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and, presumably, using a mobile phone — to human error, such as fatigue, distraction and just not paying attention.
Euro NCAP also identifies sudden medical incapacitation — a seizure, stroke or heart attack — as a growing factor in crashes, a consequence of our ageing society.
It’s no coincidence, then, that safety technology is today focused on crash avoidance. Seatbelts, airbags and sophisticated impactabsorbing vehicle structures that can help
