The following are some screenshots from the video I filmed which can be viewed here(sorry for the obnoxious music). AEB wasn't activated as the driver took control.
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What is "Emergency Hood Pop-up"?
It uses sensors in the front bumper to detect a pedestrian impact, then activates hydraulics(?) to jack up the rear of the hood to form a metal cushion for the pedestrian. This reduces head injuries - i believe.It is a safety feature in some non-US cars that pops up the back side (next to the windshield) of the hood during a pedestrian accident to help reduce the injuries..
Ah, that makes sense. I had imagined the hood popping up, depositing the poor pedestrian into the frunk.It uses sensors in the front bumper to detect a pedestrian impact, then activates hydraulics(?) to jack up the rear of the hood to form a metal cushion for the pedestrian. This reduces head injuries - i believe.
You can find more info here:
https://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv21/09-0067.pdf
Funny timing.
Today as I was coming home from work some pedestrian jay walked at a light that I was about to turn right on. I saw him right as he approached the cross walk thinking he was stopping, and then I looked at the cross walk sign (don't walk). Then I checked for traffic, and as I was about to turn right I noticed him walking without a care in the world right in front of my car. It's like he stopped just to make sure I saw him.
So I started wondering what would have happened had I not been extra careful because it's at an intersection where people routinely ignore the crosswalk sign.
I'll do some more tests shortly - Almost the exact same thing happened to me about 2 weeks ago, and the car didn't detect the pedestrian at all. It would be interesting to see if an AP2 car would detect the pedestrian in that situation.
I think AP2 would speed up to run the pedestrian down and then back up to make the pedestrian was hit before swerving down the road...I'll do some more tests shortly - Almost the exact same thing happened to me about 2 weeks ago, and the car didn't detect the pedestrian at all. It would be interesting to see if an AP2 car would detect the pedestrian in that situation.
This is an AP1 feature? I have pedestrians walk across my path all the time and I've never seen this.
In my case I wasn't moving so AP1 didn't indicate seeing anything, but I'm sure it would have had I tried to run the guy over.
So far my AP2 don't seem to have that pedestrian feature, but at least it noticed these two cyclists and slowed down. Show them as a car though, but notice how the AP display puts the car (the cyclists) correct to the side of the road. Speed is in km/h.
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