In order to gauge how effective its various driver assist safety systems are, General Motors recently partnered with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). The resulting study shows the safety systems provide impressive safety gains. Perhaps the most notable is that forward collision prevention  has reduced accidents with the technology by 46% in rear-collisions. Ask yourself it you want that technology in the vehicle behind you, or the car behind your child’s.

“This study is groundbreaking in terms of the broad range of vehicles and active safety and headlighting features examined,” said GM Safety Technical Fellow, Raymond Kiefer. “The results show that the GM active safety systems evaluated are addressing a wide range of common crashes that cause a staggering amount of injuries, property damage and cost to our customers and society, putting GM well on its way toward a vision of zero crashes.”

GM says that the study leveraged 3.7 million GM vehicles across 20 different models from 2013-2017. Fifteen different systems were evaluated using police report crash databases available to UMTRI from 10 states. The infographics list the impressive results. Previous studies involving GM and other manufacturers have shown similar safety gains.

Forward collision prevention and lane departure warning have been available on the Silverado and Sierra since 2014. The U.S. auto industry is about two model years away from having this technology standard on almost all vehicles.