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Exactly. It's 0.92% of the 38,000 car crash deaths in the US annually. I agree, this is noise and honestly it doesn't make sense the NHTSA would even consider a mandatory "safety" feature like this for that small of an expected change. Personally, I will not be purchasing a car with this feature until I'm forced to.

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Feel free to look at the numbers in the PRIA [1]. Those 360 deaths are a significant reduction in fatalities from baseline in the types of collisions they expect to be impacted by this rulemaking. That baseline itself assumes some 65% of new vehicles will come with compliant AEB systems regardless of this rulemaking.

[1] https://www.regulations.gov/document/NHTSA-2023-0021-0004

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