The research also found that automatic emergency braking (AEB) is the most impactful technology, reducing three out of the four most frequent accident categories: intersection (by 28 per cent), rear-end (by 27.7 per cent) and pedestrian accidents (by 28.4 per cent).

The research was funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) under their academic-industrial partnership programme.

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

Existing research shows that connected and automated vehicles (CAV) are expected to improve road safety substantially, including reducing accident frequency and severity.

According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), as of May 2018, 92.7 per cent of new vehicles in the US have at least one ADAS. In the UK...