AAA Intersection Braking Test: All Four 2026 Models Pass Standard Left-Turn Test, Three Fail Side-Road Cut-In
AAA and the Automobile Club of Southern California's Automotive Research Center released test results on November 12 showing that four 2026 model-year vehicles with standard intersection automatic emergency braking (AEB) all avoided collisions in the standardized left-turn-across-oncoming-traffic scenario, but three of the four did not prevent a collision when a vehicle entered their path from a side road.
AAA said the closed-course testing used a robotic soft vehicle target across 74 controlled daytime runs in four scenarios: turn-into-path, the standardized Euro NCAP turn-across-path with turn signal, turn-across-path without a turn signal, and turn-across-path with manual steering. In the standardized configuration, all four vehicles avoided a collision in every run. With the turn signal off, one vehicle provided neither a forward collision warning nor automatic braking and struck the soft car in all runs. In the turn-into-path scenario, only one vehicle avoided contact in every run while the other three struck the soft car every time. Manual steering produced the same results as robotic steering.
Greg Brannon, AAA's Director of Automotive Engineering and Research, said intersections are some of the most dangerous places on the road, that AEB is making progress in the limited scenarios it is tested to handle, and that performance outside those scenarios is spotty. AAA recommended that automakers work with researchers, regulators and safety organizations to broaden intersection testing protocols, and that drivers treat intersection AEB as an added layer of protection while staying attentive. In AAA's 2022 testing, four vehicles without intersection AEB functionality provided no alerts or braking in two common intersection scenarios.
(Source: AAA)
Source: AAA
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