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posted by chromas on Wednesday October 09 2019, @11:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the double-clutch-your-pearls dept.

Not only is the problem of cars killing pedestrians not going away, but the annual death toll over the last decade has actually increased by 35%. The proliferation of cars with automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems that detect pedestrians is therefore a good thing, right?

According to a study by the American Automobile Association, maybe we shouldn't count on AEB. The association has just tested the pedestrian-detection behavior of four popular mid-sized model-year 2019 sedans—a Chevrolet Malibu, Honda Accord, Tesla Model 3, and Toyota Camry—in a variety of different scenarios. Unfortunately, the results are not promising, particularly when it comes to anything but the least challenging scenarios.

[...] The testing was all carried out on dry asphalt in a testing area marked out as a four-lane highway with a solid white line dividing the two middle lanes. For one other test, one of the speedway's surface streets was appropriated: a right turn with a 57-foot (17.3m)-radius curve. Different tests involved adult or child pedestrian targets moving at 3.1mph (5km/h), from left to right across the path of the test vehicle. For each test, the longitudinal distance and the time-to-collision was recorded when each vehicle gave a visual alert that a collision was imminent, as well as once the vehicle began to automatically brake. Impact speed or separation distance were recorded, depending upon the outcome of the test.

Unfortunately, the results of the tests were very much a mixed bag.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 10 2019, @12:09AM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 10 2019, @12:09AM (#904959) Journal

    Which is all to say that your car might come with a clever digital safety net, but it's far from perfect. If you are behind the wheel of a car, then your job is to pay attention to what's going on and to not run people over. And this is a reminder to those of us on foot: it's dangerous out there.

    The concept of responsibility? Your job? Bottom line, no matter what, when, how, or why, if your vehicle injures or kills someone, it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY! Hang up the phone, and drive.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 10 2019, @01:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 10 2019, @01:46AM (#904991)

    Hang up the phone, and drive.

    Do you mean that the right to free speech over the phone is curtailed while I'm driving? Constitution, amendment, blah, blah...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 10 2019, @06:03PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 10 2019, @06:03PM (#905313)

    My money is on runaway hearing some rant about millenials driving while using their phones during his morning brainwa-- talk radio session. He likes to parrot the outrage-of-the-day. Irony, not just for hipsters!

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 10 2019, @11:07PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 10 2019, @11:07PM (#905451) Journal

      Irony? Explain . . .

      This should be good. Another dummy tries to explain that listening to the radio is just as hazardous as texting on the cell phone?