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Commentary: Why are vehicle door accident-avoidance systems so effective in reducing pedestrian deaths?

Aug 16, 2017 | Local News

By Peter Gold

When you open your vehicle door at night, the highly reflective Vehicle Door Accident Avoidance System (VDAAS) that can be applied just above the lower edge of your vehicle door is automatically illuminated by another driver’s headlights to allow a visual warning to be seen from more than 1,000 feet away.

The highly reflective VDAAS automatically provides what is called a Zone of Illumination to the sides of the person’s legs standing in front of a vehicle door at night. This advancement — Inview Vehicle Trim — is new, unique and universal in application to all vehicles … and it requires no tools to apply. When applied to all vehicles it is expected to reduce the loss of life by an estimated 100 lives globally per night. The actual cost per application is almost free in comparison to the value it provides in accident avoidance.

This advancement will, over time, become a global motor vehicle safety standard. Not to have this system applied to all vehicles by all vehicle manufacturers is to knowingly make a vehicle with an unseen vehicle door a contributor to the resulting loss of life. This is no longer acceptable and must now become a priority in acceptance and application by every CEO of every vehicle manufacturer globally.  

It took over 100 years and the estimated loss of over one million lives since the inception of the motor vehicle to finally create an effective Vehicle Door Accident Avoidance System with new knowledge (U.S. Patent Numbers 8,382,350, 8,596,840, 8,894,256, 9,108,569, 9,308,859 and 9,469,246 ). It is time to make choices that will allow drivers to see other vehicles at night, and only when needed.

Peter Gold is the inventor and CEO of Inview Vehicle Trim. For more information, please visit www.inviewvehicletrim.com.

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