When it comes to active safety, you’d think that your car being able to detect pedestrians and apply the brakes if you’re not paying attention, would be a great selling point.
And it is. In fact, it’s something that until recently was found only on luxury cars – whereas now you can even get it on the VW Up!.
German magazine AMS put together this independent test where they gathered a bunch of cars (from different segments) with Pedestrian Detection systems, and went all MacGyver on us with the dummy being pulled in front of the moving vehicles.
The cars they used were the VW Up!, Nissan Qashqai, MINI Cooper S, Subaru Outback, Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Volvo V60.
If you’d have to guess, and we’ll spoil it for you by telling you that out of 6 cars, only one managed to stop in time and not send that dummy to the ER, which would you say won this test?
The W205 C-Class? The “Safety is my middle name” Volvo V60? Maybe it was the tiny VW Up!. You’ll just have to watch the video and find out.
And no, we weren’t expecting this result either.