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«The point of autobrake systems is to help inattentive drivers avoid rear - ending another car,» Zuby explains.
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The addition of autobrake boosts the minivan's front crash prevention rating from basic to superior.
Not exact matches
Two rear autobrake systems earn the highest rating of superior, and four earn the second - highest rating of advanced in the first IIHS evaluations of rear crash prevention systems.
The autobrake system is tested at speeds of 12 mph and 25 mph, with points awarded based on how the speed is reduced in the situation.
This includes the City Safety suite with front collision warning and full autobrake in the event of an impending crash.
The base CX - 3 Sport has an impressive amount of standard equipment for its price, including blind - spot monitoring, keyless start, a 7 - inch infotainment screen and autobrake.
In just two rounds of tests, automakers have shown a strong commitment to improving systems in order to maximize the safety benefits (see «Quick work: Better autobrake helps more models earn top ratings for front crash prevention,» May 29, 2014).
HLDI predicts that 95 percent of registered vehicles will be equipped with rear cameras in 2039; rear parking sensors in 2041; forward collision warning, blind spot monitoring and lane departure warning in 2043; autobrake in 2045 and adaptive headlights sometime after 2050.
Ratings are determined by whether the vehicles have available rear autobrake and, if so, how it performs in a series of car - to - car and car - to - pole tests with different approach angles.
Autobrake is also standard, but the remaining complement of safety systems — full - speed adaptive cruise, active lane assist, automatic high beams and traffic sign recognition — is bundled into a $ 1,800 option pack.
The ANCAP / Euro NCAP researchers note that an unintended consequence of improved braking could be that vehicles with autobrake are more often struck in the rear.
Among 2015 models, 212 of 784 offer autobrake, more than twice as many as in the 2012 model year.
Under the IIHS ratings program, a front crash prevention system with autobrake is one of the criteria required to earn a Top Safety Pick + award.
Twenty - seven percent of 2015 models offer a front crash prevention system with autobrake, more than twice as many as in the 2012 model year.
The analysis compared the ratio of these crash types for autobrake vehicles and similar vehicles without autobrake.
Being a Volvo, the V60 comes with a number of safety and driver assistance systems, including City Safety with Autobrake.
The inclusion of tests for pedestrian - detecting autobrake systems drove a huge increase in fitment of this life - saving technology, mostly as standard equipment but also as an option.
An autobrake system may not always prevent a crash but may reduce vehicle speed, mitigating the severity of the crash.
Seven earn the highest rating of superior when equipped with optional autobrake and forward collision warning systems.
Information by make and model on the availability of forward collision warning, autobrake, lane departure warning, lane departure prevention, adaptive headlights and blind spot detection can be found here.
However, vehicles with forward collision warning alone or low - speed autobrake had lower rates of being rear - ended than vehicles without.
The front crash prevention features of the Top Safety Pick + winners run the gamut from basic warning systems, such as those offered on the Ford Fusion, Lincoln MKZ and Honda's four winners, to Subaru's EyeSight warning and autobrake system.
Other autobrake systems can slow down or completely stop the car to avoid some front - to - rear crashes if its driver doesn't brake or steer out of the way in response to a warning.
Even though it feels like most of these features have been added just yesterday, one IIHS study found that the «combination of a rearview camera, rear parking sensors and rear autobrake is reducing backing crashes reported to police by 78 percent.»
Collision Warning with Autobrake is a part of the City Safety system.
The inclusion of tests for pedestrian - detecting autobrake systems drove a huge increase in fitment of this technology, mostly as standard equipment but also as an option.
Autobrake isn't standard, instead offered as part of the adaptive cruise control option.
Unlike the Q3, the 2016 Audi Q5 features optional crash prevention technology like forward collision warning and low - speed autobrake, which helped it earn the highest rating possible of Top Safety Pick Plus.
If the Institute hasn't tested a vehicle's autobrake system, but NHTSA recognizes its forward collision warning system, the vehicle gets a rating of «basic; autobrake not tested.»
For an advanced rating, a vehicle must have autobrake and avoid a crash or reduce speeds by at least 5 mph in 1 of 2 tests.
The 2016 Volkswagen Golf received a Top Safety Pick Plus rating from the IIHS because of its good test performance, on top of its crash prevention technologies such as forward collision warning and low - speed autobrake.
Cicchino's previous studies found that front crash prevention with autobrake cuts the rate of front - to - rear crashes in half and that rearview cameras can prevent about 1 in 6 backing crashes.
With standard City Safety, which includes pedestrian, cyclist, vehicle and large animal detection with emergency autobrake, the XC40 is one of the best - equipped small premium SUVs on the market.
Both autobrake and forward collision warning are helping drivers avoid a pitfall of driving on congested roads, an IIHS study shows.
«Even when a crash isn't avoided, systems that have autobrake have a good chance of preventing injuries by reducing the impact speed,» says Jessica Cicchino, the study's author and the Institute's vice president for research.
Although there is a lack of evidence on rear autobrake's effectiveness, the technology has the potential to prevent more crashes than rear cameras alone.
Manufacturers who pledged to make autobrake standard by 2022 are now vying to get the crash avoidance technology into their models ahead of their competitors.
An exception is Toyota, which has equipped all but a handful of Toyota and Lexus models with standard autobrake and other advanced features.
IIHS wasn't able to test the autobrake systems on the Mercedes - Benz GLE - Class (formerly the M - Class), Nissan Rogue and Nissan Sentra in time for this initial release of winners.
Pedestrian - detecting autobrake systems, first tested by Euro NCAP in 2016, was already available on 82 percent of the cars tested in 2017 and standard equipment on 62 percent of them.
There is a small handful of safety features on offer, as well, like autobrake and blind spot monitoring.
Toyota is an exception, the institute said, having equipped «all but a handful of Toyota and Lexus models with standard autobrake and other advanced features.»