that they will do the right thing. john works at a local garage and deals with cars that have aeb installed. he says the technology is proven and effective. how does the brake in a car normally work and how is that different to aeb? you press that brake pedal, that energy is then transferred to this pad, which then hits that disc. it clamps together with another pad this side and obviously slows you down accordingly. aeb works alongside a lot of different systems on a vehicle. you have a little camera in the front of this one that you can see just there. then you have radar built into the car, as well. and if that car sees an object that it thinks you are going to hit, it will slow you down accordingly. it s a safety feature. it s brilliant, it works. it wants to be on every car. meera s campaign is being supported by the aa. the european commission has voted to introduce it and it will be -
the eight year old from leicester was on his way home from visiting his critically ill older brother in hospital. when i sat in hospital that night, i had one son fighting for his life. and my other son was dead. it didn tjust break me, it destroyed me. it destroyed everything i knew and who i was. and i had no idea where i was going to go from there. it was devastating. meera decided to channel her grief into campaigning for road safety. and she is now urging the government to adopt what she is calling dev s law legislation to make it compulsory for all new cars to be fitted with aeb, autonomous emergency braking. technology that she says could prevent future
me, it destroyed me. it destroyed everything i knew and who i was. and i had no idea where i was going to go from there. it was devastating. meera decided to channel her grief into campaigning for road safety. and she is now urging the government to adopt what she s calling dev s law legislation to make it compulsory for all new cars to be fitted with aeb, autonomous emergency braking. technology that she says could prevent future deaths like her son s. there were so many elements that failed. and it led to the catastrophic outcome of losing dev. aeb was one part of it. if it were there, it maybe could have saved him. i think it s disappointing that we haven t done it already, we haven t mandated aeb as law already. however, i m always optimistic