Counter to what might be the conventional wisdom, reflective clothing seems to confound the technology.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the term “irony” as, “An incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.
In the’ IIHS’ prior evaluations, in which separate ratings were given for daytime and nighttime pedestrian detection, the Forester earned its highest superior rating, while the CR-V received a second-best advanced rating; the CX-5 was not evaluated. For those assessments, both the child and adult pedestrian dummies used wore black shirts and blue pants.
The CR-V and MX-5 tended to collide with the roadway-crossing dummy most of the time regardless of what it was wearing, but at least both slowed down a bit when the dummy was wearing all-black garments. The systems failed to work altogether with the reflective stripes added to either the black or white alternatives.
“These results suggest that some automakers need to tweak their pedestrian automatic emergency braking systems,” says IIHS President David Harkey. “It’s untenable that the clothes that pedestrians, cyclists and roadway workers wear to be safe may make them harder for crash avoidance technology to recognize.”
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