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Starting in 2029, vehicle manufacturers must make automatic emergency braking, which reduces vehicle and pedestrian crashes, standard in cars and light trucks.
Most vehicles have AEB these days, at least on higher trims. I've had it since early 2019 on my Forester. Never any problems, and the system saved my bacon in the first week with the new car.
Most vehicles have AEB these days, at least on higher trims. I've had it since early 2019 on my Forester. Never any problems, and the system saved my bacon in the first week with the new car.
Like most of these safety systems, e.g. airbags, ABS, if they need to be used just one time they paid for themselves. I cannot imagine how awful I'd feel if I inadvertently ran into a kid on a bicycle.
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Our Outback has that, and so far twice already it's applied the brakes and displayed a message "object detected" when it was not appropriate. One was a sign in front of a small roundabout, the other was at a Y where there was s sign in the middle.
Like most of these safety systems, e.g. airbags, ABS, if they need to be used just one time they paid for themselves. I cannot imagine how awful I'd feel if I inadvertently ran into a kid on a bicycle.
I was approaching a fork in a 3-lane highway that was splitting into two 2-lane highways. I'm in the middle lane and a full-sized pickup right in front of me changes his mind between going left and right at the fork, several times, all when he's right on top of it. The pickup was swerving first abruptly and soon wildly left and right, the guy actually went off the road... I was already braking down from ~65 mph, but then AEB kicked in and initiated max braking, and while the ABS is engaged, I saw the pickup truck's tailgate swing violently across the front of my car, passing within inches - and these swings where like >= 10 feet+ each, so if he hit my car, we'd have just piled up, out of control at high speed. If Eyesight didn't jump in, I think I'd have been toast, because that was happening too quickly for me to react in a sufficient manner. That was Friday on my first week with the new car.
My 2020 F150 didn't have auto braking but it had a warning with all sorts of flashing lights and buzzers go off when a collision was "imminent". Only problem was that the 4 times that happened, there was nothing around me Perhaps the sensors were set to pick up another dimension in which there was something I would have hit
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Perhaps the sensors were set to pick up another dimension in which there was something I would have hit 
