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.