Autonomous emergency braking is 'the next seatbelt'

Dozens of lives could be saved every year on the UK's roads if the law was changed to make a new type of technology compulsory in all new cars.

That's according to road safety campaigners and research by the insurance industry.

They want autonomous emergency braking, or AEB, to become just as common as seat belts.

At the moment the system's only fitted in around a fifth of new cars.

Thatcham, the insurance industry's research centre, says AEB is "the next seatbelt".

Newsbeat's Dan Whitworth has been looking at how the technology works with Matthew Avery.

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