Front Automatic Braking cuts rear-end crashes of GM vehicles by 43%

IIHS found that GM vehicles with Front Automatic Braking and Forward Collision Alert were in 43% fewer rear-end striking crashes and 64% fewer such crashes with injuries.

  • 5 society

    Across police-reported crashes, GM vehicles with both systems were in 43% fewer rear-end striking crashes and 64% fewer such crashes with injuries, a change documented across a population of vehicles.

  • Not rated a person

    IIHS reports lower rates across many vehicles, and no crash avoided by a particular driver can be traced.

Depth runs from 1, a convenience or time saved, to 5, a life or a livelihood preserved.

Status
Reported benefit.
Evidence

foundstudiedreportedclaimed

An independent research report supports the benefit.

Compared with

The same GM models without a front crash prevention system. Measured.

The system’s part
IIHS compared crash rates of vehicles with the optional systems and of the same models without them, controlling for factors that affect crash risk. The comparison is observational. The abstract does not describe the sensors or say whether the systems learn from data.
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Costs and harms
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Benefit type
Increased Product Safety
System
Forward Collision Alert and Front Automatic Braking
Made by
General Motors
Used by
General Motors (optional equipment on its vehicles)
Where
United States
Stage
In routine use
Date
, when the source was published
Kind
Aggregate result
Broad benefit
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment, Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Last revised
31 October 2026

Sources

  1. Report, by authors with no tie to the system.

    Cicchino, J. B. Real-world effects of General Motors Forward Collision Alert and Front Automatic Braking Systems. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, September 2018.

    Vehicles equipped with Front Automatic Braking and Forward Collision Alert were involved in 43% fewer rear-end striking crashes of all severities, 64% fewer rear-end striking crashes with any injuries, and 68% fewer rear-end striking crashes with third-party injuries compared with the same vehicles without a front crash prevention system.

Details

AI system

Workflow

Buyers chose the systems as options on GM models. Forward Collision Alert warned the driver, and Front Automatic Braking braked automatically.

Follow-up

Conditions for replication

The vehicle carries both systems, since Forward Collision Alert alone gave smaller reductions. The crash is one in which the equipped vehicle strikes the rear of another.

Entry details

Sector

Road vehicle crash avoidance.

Purpose

General Motors built Forward Collision Alert and Front Automatic Braking to warn drivers of a frontal crash and to brake automatically to prevent or soften it.

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Cite this record

Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). Front Automatic Braking cuts rear-end crashes of GM vehicles by 43% (AIBD-0906). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 31 October 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-0906.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 4.0)

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