Automatic emergency brakes often fail while driving at night
Pedestrian deaths are surging across America, with 7,485 people struck and killed by cars in 2021 alone, the most in 40 years. To reverse the trend, car makers are coming out with technology that can detect a pedestrian and apply the brakes: they’re known as Automatic Emergency Braking systems, or AEBs, and they’re in virtually every new car that’s being manufactured.
But Spotlight on America has uncovered a crucial flaw in this technology: AEBs don’t work as well at night, and that’s when most deadly pedestrian accidents happen.
It's a jarring sight.
In the complete stillness of a dark night, a car's headlines are seen approaching, then slamming into an unseen pedestrian.
Spotlight on America watched it play out, except instead of a pedestrian, it's a specially designed crash dummy, lined up to test the performance of a car's automatic emergency braking system.
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