Sentences with phrase «rear autobrake»

Rear autobrake bundled with rear parking sensors and a rearview camera can cut backing crash rates by more than 75 percent, new IIHS research shows.

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.

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.»

The Outback and XT5 earn a superior rating when equipped with optional rear autobrake, parking sensors and rear cross-traffic alert.

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.

In its latest tests, IIHS engineers evaluated rear autobrake systems on six 2017 model vehicles — the BMW 5 series sedan, Cadillac XT5, Infiniti QX60, Jeep Cherokee, Subaru Outback and Toyota Prius.

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.

Not exact matches

When audible or visual warnings aren?t enough, an autobrake intervenes to reduce the chances that the vehicle will rear - end leader traffic.

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.

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.

The autobrake systems also greatly reduce rear - end crashes involving injury.

However, vehicles with forward collision warning alone or low - speed autobrake had lower rates of being rear - ended than vehicles without.

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.

«The point of autobrake systems is to help inattentive drivers avoid rear - ending another car,» Zuby explains.

Without autobrake the XT5 ran up $ 3,477 in estimated repair bills after dinging the pole (bumper cover, tailgate, hitch bar, energy absorber, rear body panel, trim and assorted brackets).

The ratings are based on research by HLDI indicating that forward collision warning and autobrake systems help drivers avoid front - to - rear crashes at both low speeds and moderate speeds.

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.

If all vehicles had been equipped with autobrake, there would have been at least 700,000 fewer police - reported rear - end crashes in 2013.

The analyses show that forward collision warning alone reduces rear - end crashes by 23 percent, while forward collision warning with autobrake reduces them by 39 percent.

These include: forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking; lane departure warning; blind spot detection; frontal pedestrian autobrake; rear pedestrian autobrake; high - performing low - beam headlights; high - beam assist; and amber rear - turn - signal lamps.

If all vehicles had been equipped with autobrake that worked as well as the systems studied, there would have been at least 700,000 fewer police - reported rear - end crashes in 2013.