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  • We were examining pedestrian automatic emergency braking systems for a group of 16 midsize cars.

  • This included both luxury models as well as nonluxury models.

  • What we discovered was that the performance varied.

  • We had some vehicles that performed very well and rated superior and other vehicles that

  • got no credit.

  • Our rating scale ranges from superior to advanced to basic to no credit, and the ratings are

  • assigned based on how well the vehicle either stops or reduces its speed before striking

  • the pedestrian.

  • We had six different automakers who had vehicles that achieved a superior rating in this round

  • of testing, including Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Volvo, Nissan and Subaru.

  • We run each vehicle through a series of three pedestrian scenarios, an adult who is crossing

  • the street, a child who is crossing the street and then finally an adult who is standing

  • alongside the roadway, and we run each of those tests at two different vehicle speeds.

  • The most challenging test scenario we perform is a child entering the street

  • from behind a parked vehicle.

  • This is commonly referred to as a dash- or a dart-out type crash.

  • The vehicle has less time to react, the sensors on the vehicle are obstructed by the vehicles

  • that are parked, and therefore there's less time for the software to detect there's

  • a pedestrian there and then be able to stop the vehicle and not strike the pedestrian.

  • The two vehicles that stood out in our testing this time around include the Nissan Maxima

  • and the Subaru Outback.

  • Both of these vehicles are nonluxury vehicles that offer pedestrian AEB as standard equipment,

  • and they also achieved a superior rating in our test.

  • The Ford Fusion did not receive any credit in our test.

  • It had particular difficulty in the child crossing the street scenario, not slowing

  • down in any of those tests.

  • The Maxima performed very well in all of our tests, avoiding the pedestrian in every single

  • test that we ran.

  • We encourage consumers to shop for vehicles that have pedestrian AEB systems.

  • They should also check the ratings on our website to understand which vehicles have

  • the latest technologies available.

We were examining pedestrian automatic emergency braking systems for a group of 16 midsize cars.

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