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 ...

Automakers say they're a safety assistant, not a guarantee. Modern vehicles are equipped with a wide range of driver-assist systems, but a new study from AAA emphasizes these are designed to assist ...

A federal rule that requires automatic emergency braking systems in cars and light trucks by 2029 could be a tough compliance hurdle for automakers but further the industry's efforts to use technology ...

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 ...

In a report Tuesday, the IIHS said that Uber's decision to turn off active safety gear in its Volvo XC90 self-driving test vehicle contributed to the death of a pedestrian in Arizona in March.

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 ...

Helping to avoid or minimize potential rear-end collisions is the main benefit of Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) for the average driver. While it has not yet been mandated as standard equipment on ...

GM has a wide swath of safety technologies available across its vehicle portfolio, with many of the systems offering different levels of capability and specific areas of focus. Among these is a ...

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 ...