Newer vehicles are packed with all sorts of technology to help prevent crashes, especially when backing out of a driveway or busy parking lot. But new research reminds us why it's a bad idea to rely ...

Automatic braking systems are designed to cut down on the number of crashes, deaths, and injuries, but new data shows the systems in the test rarely worked. In AAA crash testing, the rear automatic ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation is moving forward with a proposed rulemaking to mandate automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems on trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 ...

Modern cars beep, ding at you, and flash warnings across their various screens in ways that would send someone from the early 2000s into a coma. Sure that can get annoying, but these warnings and the ...

According to a press release issued by the Auto Club Group (AAA), a recent study shows that Reverse Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) — an advanced driving system that automatically activate a car’s ...

Reverse automatic emergency braking systems may not be as reliable as drivers think. A study issued Thursday by motoring club AAA found that the systems struggle to prevent crashes. In one test ...

Rear AEB, also known as Reverse AEB and Reverse Automatic Braking, was shown to be more successful than other systems targeted to avoid backing collisions in a recent study by the Insurance Institute ...

Toyota is also adding the ability for the adaptive cruise control system to courteously allow adjoining traffic to merge into ...

The issue with any of these is going to be false positives. An false AEB event at 35mph is a significantly less serious situation than one at 62. You are looking at roughly 3 to 4 times the stopping ...