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" In a study released this fall, the highway safety agency compared crash statistics for SUVs and other vehicles that had a stability-control system with the experience of identical models that lacked the technology. It found that SUVs with stability control had 63% fewer fatal single-vehicle crashes.
Cars with the systems had 30% fewer such crashes, which include spinouts and rollovers.
Researchers at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit testing organization, have estimated that at least 7,000 lives could be saved each year if all vehicles were equipped with stability control systems.
Although stability control has been available on some U.S. models since the late 1990s, fewer than 10% of new vehicles sold here have the systems, compared with about half in Europe.
In the U.S. market, more emphasis has been put on such options as satellite navigation and elaborate sound systems than on stability control equipment. "
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