eHorizon anticipates the route and road conditions ahead and interacts with the control system PreviewESC is an additional advancement towards achieving Vision Zero AUBURN HILLS, Mich., July 31, 2019 – Unpredictable road conditions present both a challenge and a safety…
(Reuters) Reporting by Tina Bellon; Additional reporting and editing by Joe White; Editing by Edward Tobin RUCKERSVILLE, Va. – Automakers are accelerating the rollout of technology designed to avoid crashes, but insurance companies are waving a caution flag at consumers…
WASHINGTON, DC–Three members of Congress added their names to an effort to require big-rig trucks to have automatic emergency brake systems. Reps. Jesús “Chuy” García of Illinois, Hank Johnson of Georgia and Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania joined the Truck Safety…
SYDNEY, Australia–Ford is spreading Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) as standard a standard feature globally. The latest product line to be added is the Ford Everest range here. AEB with Pedestrian Detection is now included as standard from the base-model Ambiente right…
Source: Carcomplaints.com PHOENIX, Ariz.–The Arizona Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a Nissan Rogue automatic emergency braking lawsuit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court. The lawsuit was filed by Antea Dashi after she was injured in an April…
Tesla has extended its 5-star safety rating it enjoys in the U.S. streak to Europe. The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) awarded the Model 3 its highest rating of five stars. And you can watch a video of…
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.–ZF, the world’s leading supplier of automotive cameras, has developed the Dual-cam two lens camera specifically designed for the commercial truck market and to be used in concert with other ZF ADAS technologies. Part of ZF’s S-Cam4 family…
DETROIT, MICH.–General Motors Co. is facing resistance from federal regulators for permission to test some 5,000 driverless cars without steering wheels or brake pedals on public roads. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received comments of opposition from groups…
DETROIT, Mich.–European regulators recognized Toyota‘s Pre-Collision system in giving the Corolla sedan and RAV4 its top ratings–Five Stars–in the Euro NCAP test. The cars performed strongly across the board in the protection given to adult and child occupants as well…
FREMONT, Calif.–Tesla is currently working on a new version of its Summon feature that enables its vehicles to autonomously navigate parking lots and pick up their owners on request. The latest version is becoming impressive as an owner demonstrated the…
DETROIT, MICH.–Autonomous driving is coming. At what rate of arrival and development we can’t be sure. But automakers have dramatically pared back their r&d on internal combustion engines in favor of autonomous or self-driving vehicles. Before we see a lot…
DETROIT, Mich.–Despite the increased prevalence and sophistication of automatic emergency braking (AEB) in vehicles today, pedestrian fatalities are climbing. The U.S.-based Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) estimates there were 6,200 pedestrians killed in traffic accidents in the U.S. in 2018, the…
WASHINGTON DC–The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is probing reports of potential unintended braking in 675,000 2017-2018 Nissan Motor Co Ltd Rogue vehicles, it said on Friday. The auto safety agency said it is opening a defect petition review in…
DEARBORN, Mich.– Ford Motor Co. has introduced post-impact emergency braking, leveraging its automatic emergency braking system, in the new 2020 Ford Edge, an in-house developed technology it will roll into additional models. Chris Billman, global driver assist technologies manager, says…
DETROIT, Mich.–Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB), also known as a collision avoidance system is gaining traction outside of Europe and the U.S. where it first rolled out. Ford is the first automaker to offer the feature in the utility market in…
Nissan has acknowledged the problem but has yet to issue a formal recall Safety groups agree that automatic emergency braking has the potential to save lives and reduce crash deaths, but that is obviously contingent on the technology actually working…
The EU institutions have reached a provisional political agreement on the revised General Safety Regulation. As of 2022 new safety technologies will become mandatory in European vehicles to protect passengers, pedestrians and cyclists. New technologies on the market can help…
Better protection for pedestrians and cyclists: Sideguard Assist and MirrorCam work hand-in-hand in the new Actros The Sideguard Assist warnings are perfectly visible in the MirrorCam display Whether drivers are turning off or changing lanes – all of the relevant…
The road infrastructure and vulnerable road users will “speak” with the car as the mobile network issues car-alerts to avert any danger or complex situations. The connected car communicates with all the surrounding elements using Ficosa’s C-V2X technology, which offers…
GENEVA (Reuters) – Forty countries including Japan and the European Union have agreed on a draft U.N. regulation for advanced emergency braking systems (AEBS) for new cars and light commercial vehicles from early 2020, a U.N. agency said on Tuesday.…
Some Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have been available for nearly 30 years, however, they have only become more commonplace in the last several years, like automatic emergency braking and lane keeping assistance. Since these features now come standard on…
A vivid re-enactment of a three-car collision on a California highway opened the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The presentation demonstrated how development of the Toyota Guardian automated safety system could help prevent this kind of incident. Nobody…
CES — NVIDIA today announced the world’s first commercially available Level 2+ automated driving system, NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot, which integrates multiple breakthrough AI technologies that will enable supervised self-driving vehicles to go into production by next year. At CES 2019, leading automotive suppliers…
The highest possible degree of safety is something that lies at the heart of the Mercedes-Benz brand. That’s why the brand with the star has been supporting bus and coach drivers for many years with an increasingly wide range of…
A Nissan forward emergency braking malfunction has led to a lawsuit that alleges vehicles suddenly and unexpectedly brake on railroad tracks, bridges, intersections and other locations. Instead of protecting drivers, the Nissan lawsuit alleges the systems create perfect conditions for…