"Adding to the mountain of evidence that automotive technology alone won't end America's pedestrian death crisis, researchers at AAA found that the most recent Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking systems - or PAEB - failed to detect an adult-sized crash test dummy about 40 percent of the time after dark, even though the test vehicles were only moving at around 25 miles per hour under "ideal conditions.""
""[PAEB technology has taken] a big jump forward, but it's not 100 percent like we'd like to see," said Greg Brannon, AAA's director of automotive research. "US traffic fatality statistics are an embarrassment, especially when you compare them to other developed countries that continue to to reduce the number of traffic fatalities while the US has remained steady or, on some years, increased. Seeing 40,000 people dying on the road in the US - it's just not acceptable.""
Pedestrian automatic emergency braking (PAEB) has improved but still misses many pedestrians in low-light conditions. The most recent systems failed to detect an adult-sized crash test dummy about 40 percent of the time after dark, even with test vehicles moving around 25 miles per hour under ideal conditions. Wearing high-visibility clothing can, in some cases, reduce detection probability at night. PAEB performance worsens at higher vehicle speeds. More than 80 percent of U.S. pedestrian deaths occurred on roads with speed limits of 35 mph or greater between 2018 and 2022. Automotive technology alone will not end the pedestrian death crisis.
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