Electronic Stability Control: The Solution?
Many Chicago personal injury attorneys specialize in auto accident cases. These often tragic cases sometimes involve products liability on the part of the manufacturer.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has determined that more than ten thousand fatal automobile crashes a year would be prevented if vehicles were equipped with electronic stability control to prevent them from rolling over. Our Illinois personal injury lawyer asks you to consider the real evidence regarding electronic stability control, and whether or not a mandate would protect citizens.
There are 34,000 fatal crashes in the United States annually. According to this study, electronic stability control could reduce number of fatalities by nearly a third. The risk of single vehicle rollovers involving SUV’s was reduced by 80 percent with electronic stability control.
Stability control - which automatically applies brakes to individual wheels if they sense a vehicle is veering off course - has already become more widely available in recent years, especially on rollover-prone SUVs and pickups.
But there can problems associated with electronic stability control, and some evidence shows it may actually cause accidents. Remember that anti-lock brakes, which were once all the rage in the name of ’safety’, have been attributed to increases in certain types of accidents.
The question asked by Chicago personal injury attorneys regarding mandatory electronic stability control is: Will regulations really serve the best interest of the consumer or the auto industry?
Our Illinois personal injury lawyer will address this topic in the next post. Stay tuned!
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