Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say

Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by nradov on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:57AM (#36151937)

There appear to be major variations between manufacturers. I've driven many miles on a wide variety of roads in a Subaru and haven't experienced any false positive automatic braking incidents. However, the system does automatically disable itself (and warns the driver accordingly) in heavy precipitation so there is still significant room for improvement.

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Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by jacquesm on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:04AM (#36152065)

> the system does automatically disable itself (and warns the driver accordingly) in heavy precipitation

That would have saved me one of two incidents so Subaru may well be the one doing this right.

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Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by pbnjeh on Thursday June 01, 2023 @08:13PM (#36159225)

My parents have a couple of newer Outbacks. My father, who's rather technical and pays close attention to these things, had commented repeatedly that he likes how Subaru appears to be more conservative in deploying new technology, but what they do deploy seems to be functionally solid and correct. (His opinion; YMMV.)

Also, they still provide physical knobs and switches for the important things; that includes climate controls and, I believe, the stereo.

I'm driving an 11 year old Forester and just as happy not to be dealing with all this crap quite yet. And the various satellite connectivity options on it have been left never activated.

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Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by hnick on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:50PM (#36159041)

When shopping for a new car Subaru was very proud of its dual-camera setup, I don't know if it's actually better but they make a lot of noise about it. Maybe there is some truth to it.

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Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by tacticalturtle on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:29PM (#36160117)

Anecdotally, I’ve been driving a 2019 Forester for the past few years, and every year or so - I’ve had an experience where taking an exit off the highway, it detects an object that isn’t there, and starts beeping and throwing up red warnings.

From what I can recall, it’s never gotten to the point of engaging the brake, but it’s super unsettling every time it happens.

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Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by yoden on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:30AM (#36164794)

Amusingly a poster above indicated they had issues with multiple Subarus, and another had issues with Hondas (which is what has worked well for me).

People on this forum want it to be a technology issue, and I'm sure it is to some extent, but I think the differences between driving styles is also a large component. If you're a careful driver that usually leaves a lot of separation, many AEB implementations will rarely trigger and you'll usually understand why when it does. Whereas if you're an aggressive driver that cuts between vehicles, leaves <1 s separation, etc., you will notice a lot of "unexpected" braking from these systems. Like the poster above that was upset the system slowed them down when they were nearly clipping a car exiting the road.

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