A study by the IIHS states that the autonomous emergency brake does not work reliably at night.
This study is actually nothing new, because three years ago a study by the AAA found that the Detection of foot traffic at night in relation to the autonomous emergency brake is bad. Has it not been improved in recent years? Yet.
The current study organized the insurance-related Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). This study also found that the Autonomous Emergency Brake (AEB) not working adequately on many models at night. The study comes as road deaths soar in the United States, which is now seeing its highest death toll since 2005.
The IIHS awarded the top grade “Superior” only four times out of the 23 models tested. Over half received a Basic Score or below No Credit. As such, most vehicles are not able to see sufficiently at night.
The models with the top marks Superior were the Ford Mustang Mach-E, the Nissan Pathfinder, the Toyota Camry and the Toyota Highlander. The Chevrolet Malibu, Honda Pilot, Nissan Altima and Toyota Tacoma all received “No Credit”. Despite poor night-time performance, 19 of the 23 vehicles performed well in similar daytime tests. It is particularly interesting that, for example Toyota both very good and very bad scores.
Compared to 2019, however, you can see some improvements, so that more models received the grades Superior or Advanced. So there is good hope that the technology will continue to develop at night.