Two years from now, all heavy trucks and large buses will be required to equip electronic stability control per a new rule from the NHTSA.
The new rule, finalized Wednesday, would affect all trucks and buses exceeding 26,000 pounds in total weight, USA Today reports, and is expected to prevent over 1,700 crashes, 649 injuries, 49 fatalities, and up to 56 percent of rollovers on the road per year once it comes into force in 2017.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind both offered praise for the new rule. Foxx declared ESC "a remarkable success story" in its implementation on cars since 2012, while Rosekind added the technology would be "a win for the safety and convenience of the traveling public and for our economy."
The rule's finalization, coming after a 2011 recommendation from the National Transportation Safety Board to mandate ESC's use in trucks and buses, was announced on the same day three were killed in an accident in Pennsylvania involving a semi-trailer colliding with a bus ferrying Italian tourists. Whether ESC would have prevented the accident remains unknown at this time.
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