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“The car intervened and performed an emergency stop. The car behind didn’t ”

A friend of mine was involved in a car crash the other day. Nothing too serious and thankfully no one hurt beyond seatbelt bruising, but the point is she is adamant it was a modern safety system on the car she was driving that was at least partly to blame. I’m not going to name the car partly because I didn’t witness the accident but also because I suspect the alleged flaw in its accident prevention strategies is common in many other makes of car too.

She was leaving a motorway and on a short slip road approaching a roundabout at the bottom. The

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