The Influence of Modern Technical Systems in Vehicles on Road Safety

Abstract

A vehicle is a very complex technical system with several aspects. The basic purpose of each motor vehicle, is its primary goal to ensure the safety of the vehicle and, therefore, the safety of all traffic users. In order to achieve the basic goal, in the latest motor vehicle engineer development, during the development itself to the ultimate serial production, considerable attention is paid to the development and improvement of technical systems that help and improve vehicle management, and improve the control of the dynamic movement of vehicles. The ABS system (Anti-lock Braking System) is a precursor to the development of these systems, based on which a whole spectrum of active management systems has been developed. There is an overview of positive impacts of some system on the vehicle safety.  Influence of the system of the active safety of traffic is presented through the correlative interaction between the number of traffic accidents with light bodily injuries, number of the light injured persons and number of vehicles possessing ABS and/or ESP system and number of traffic accidents and their consequences in the Republic of Srpska. The results showed that there is a strong correlation between the number of traffic accidents with light bodily injuries, number of light bodily injuries and number of vehicles possessing ABS and/or ESP system. Furthermore, the results showed that the increase of number of the registered vehicles increases the percentage of vehicles possessing the mentioned systems. Safety of vehicles is a very important factor of the traffic safety. Decrease of the average age of the fleet contributes to the great extent to the decrease of a number of the traffic accidents and their consequences.