Recent studies by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety both indicated that the widespread application of electronic stability control could result in a significant safety benefit.
''Electronic stability control is a technology with significant safety potential," says Dr. Jeffrey W. Runge, Administrator of the NHTSA. ''We at NHTSA commend General Motors for this progressive action to improve the safety of its customers.''
Based on stability systems now in use, NHTSA's study reported a 67 percent risk reduction in single-vehicle crashes for SUVs. The IIHS said as many as 800,000 of the two million single-vehicle crashes that occur each year could be avoided if stability control was standard on all vehicles sold in the United States.
GM began offering OnStar services and StabiliTrak in 1997 and has more than 3 million OnStar subscribers and 2 million ESC-equipped vehicles on the road.
photo:GM of Canada
''Electronic stability control is a technology with significant safety potential," says Dr. Jeffrey W. Runge, Administrator of the NHTSA. ''We at NHTSA commend General Motors for this progressive action to improve the safety of its customers.''
Based on stability systems now in use, NHTSA's study reported a 67 percent risk reduction in single-vehicle crashes for SUVs. The IIHS said as many as 800,000 of the two million single-vehicle crashes that occur each year could be avoided if stability control was standard on all vehicles sold in the United States.
GM began offering OnStar services and StabiliTrak in 1997 and has more than 3 million OnStar subscribers and 2 million ESC-equipped vehicles on the road.
photo:GM of Canada