Hoovey689

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Hyundai announces standard brake-override for all models

Always looking for ways to one-up its Japanese competitors, Hyundai has announced that a brake override system will be standard equipment on its full line of vehicles, starting this month.

Truth be told, every 2012 Hyundai model save for the Elantra Touring already had a brake override system fitted. So why the announcement, and why now? Well, other than just tweaking Toyota, whose unintended acceleration problems led to widespread recalls, a Congressional investigation, and prompted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to propose requiring brake override systems on all new cars, the announcement likely has more to do with the end of Elantra Touring production than it does with anything else.

The old Hyundai i30, on which the Elantra Touring was based, has been redesigned, and reviews of the new model have already started showing up on foreign automotive websites. We won't get our version of the i30, dubbed Elantra GT here in the U.S., until later in the summer.

We'll be driving the GT in June and we promise to issue a full report, though we're going to try to avoid testing this new technology.

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/05/05/h...or-all-models/

mmarshall

Almost a moot point. It is probably going to be Federal Safety Standard in a few years.

I have mixed-feelings, both pro and con, about whether such systems are actually needed, but perhaps that is best left to another thread...unless you guys want to discuss it in this one.

RXSF

^^ in what case would it not be necessary? Its smart enough to detect when you want it to work and when you dont