The new IIHS test simulates two nighttime pedestrian scenarios: an adult crossing the road and an adult walking along the edge of the road parallel to traffic. For the crossing scenario, the vehicle ...

Although automakers work to make cars safer every year, there is still a potential that a collision between a car and a pedestrian might result in serious injuries or even fatalities. Over the past ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the term “irony” as, “An incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.” There’s no other way to describe the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — New research from AAA claims that automatic emergency braking systems in vehicles with pedestrian detection are inconsistent and they proved to be completely ineffective at night ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) concluded a new safety test. After verifying multiple types of vehicles, it found out that the nighttime pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB) ...

The rise of autonomous vehicles has brought significant advancements in safety features. The $53 billion autonomous vehicle industry has taken the transportation sector by storm. Yet, the challenge of ...

Many new cars have technology built in to lessen the likelihood or severity of a vehicle or pedestrian crash, but new research from AAA finds that pedestrian detection systems may not work all the ...

Highway workers and many pedestrians and cyclists often wear high-visibility clothing to give themselves a better chance of being noticed by drivers, but new research shows that this type of clothing ...

As pedestrian deaths continue to climb, new testing from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety finds the automatic emergency braking (AEB) with pedestrian detection systems on most cars lacking ...

Over the past decades, the automotive industry has significantly improved vehicle safety. Most of these improvements relate to improved vehicle design and new safety technologies. Needless to say, ...

DETROIT, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Many of the automatic braking systems automakers are using to prevent vehicles from hitting pedestrians do not work well in the dark, according to test results released ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new pedestrian detection system is up and running at the intersection of Ray and McClintock in Chandler, allowing people to ...