MIAMI -- Detroit Assurance, Daimler Trucks North America's new active vehicle safety suite, made its real-world debut on Friday. The company hosted a ride-and-drive event in Miami after first ...

WABCO says it will provide its advanced emergency braking system to Altec, a provider of products and services to the electric utility and other markets, for use with its medium-duty trucks. The ...

The presence of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and collision mitigation technology on commercial vehicles is nothing new to the industry. After all, some Class 8 vehicles now have as many ...

Note: This is the first in a three-part series looking at collision mitigation technologies. The next installment, “OEMs making collision mitigation key part of vehicle safety”, will publish Tuesday.

Forward-collision mitigation with active braking, or automatic emergency braking, detects a potential obstacle and issues audio and visual warnings as well as partial and full braking if necessary.

Wabco announced this week an agreement to provide Altec with its advanced emergency braking system. Altec is among the first Truck Equipment Manufacturers (TEM) to offer medium-duty vocational trucks ...

Collision mitigation systems for trucks are becoming increasingly popular as they offer enhanced safety features, register fewer false activations and set the stage for increasing autonomous ...

The lawsuit now only includes the Collision Mitigation System, which uses a combination of camera and radar sensors to identify obstacles and apply the brakes automatically. But, if the car brakes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Gorzelany is a veteran automotive journalist. New-car safety remains a prime shopping consideration among new vehicle buyers – ...

Recently, my colleague here at Overdrive wrote about a fellow driver’s prescription for dealing with the persnickety nature of collision mitigation systems while also increasing fuel mileage, ...

A lawsuit for an alleged Honda Collision Mitigation Braking system failure is heading to trial after originally being filed eight years ago. In its current form, the lawsuit claims that the Collision ...