Gov’t Adds Emergency Brake Features to Safety Device List

The recommendations help to encourage the auto industry to adopt additional safety features, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Thursday in announcing them to a group of automotive engineers in Washington, D.C. Foxx’s department includes the traffic safety agency. Devices that use cameras and radar to track traffic and objects in front of a driver could go a long way toward cutting the number of crashes. Nearly a third of all crashes reported to police in the U.S. in 2013 were rear-end collisions with other vehicles, according to NHTSA.