Prospective assessment of the effectiveness of autonomous emergency braking in car-to-cyclist accidents in France.

This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems in car-to-cyclist frontal collisions by simulating their effects, in terms of crash avoidance and injury mitigation, on a representative target population of real-world accidents. Identifying effectiveness-critical AEB-cyclist design parameters through a sensitivity analysis was also targeted. The analysis is based on a representative set of real-world car-to-cyclist frontal collisions gathered from French police reports.

Toward harmonizing prospective effectiveness assessment for road safety: Comparing tools in standard test case simulations.

With the overall goal to harmonize prospective effectiveness assessment of active safety systems, the specific objective of this study is to identify and evaluate sources of variation in virtual precrash simulations and to suggest topics for harmonization resulting in increased comparability and thus trustworthiness of virtual simulation-based prospective effectiveness assessment. A round-robin assessment of the effectiveness of advanced driver assistance systems was performed using an array of state-of-the-art virtual simulation tools on a set of standard test cases. The results were analyzed to examine reasons for deviations in order to identify and assess aspects that need to be harmonized and standardized.