What happened
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent nonprofit funded by auto insurers. On 30 August 2022, it published its first night ratings of pedestrian automatic emergency braking, for 23 vehicles. IIHS notes that three-quarters of pedestrian deaths occur at night. It cites its own earlier finding of no difference in crash risk between equipped and unequipped vehicles at night on unlit roads. On a track kept below 1 lux, IIHS ran an adult crossing the road and an adult walking along it, with low and high beams. The 2022 Toyota Camry has Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+ as standard. It avoided the crossing dummy at 12 and 25 mph and the walking dummy at 25 mph with both beams. At 37 mph, it cut its impact speed by 30 mph with high beams and by 34 mph with low beams. It was one of four vehicles rated superior. The rating applies to 2022-24 Camry models on six trims. IIHS limits ratings of camera-based systems to the headlights it tested. No crash avoided on public roads is reported.
Sources
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Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Few vehicles excel in new nighttime test of pedestrian autobrake. News release, 30 August 2022.
The Camry, Highlander and Mustang Mach-E, which also earn superior ratings, avoided hitting the dummy in the crossing scenario at both test speeds and in the 25 mph parallel test with both low and high beams.
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Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 2022 Toyota Camry, front crash prevention: pedestrian (night). Vehicle ratings page, rating for 2022-24 models on six trims, read on 1 November 2026.
In the 37 mph test, impact speed was reduced by 30 mph when using its high beams and a warning was issued 1.6 seconds before impact. When using its low beams, impact speed was reduced by 34 mph and a warning was issued 1.6 seconds before impact.
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Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+ was standard on the 2022 Camry. IIHS kept ambient light on the track below 1 lux and tested with low and high beams. The score included credit for high-beam assist, which switches on the high beams when no other vehicles are nearby.
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The car has the headlights used in the test, since IIHS rates camera-based systems only with those headlights. The pedestrian crosses the road or walks in the car's lane, as in the tested scenarios.
Entry details
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Road vehicle crash avoidance.
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Toyota built the Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Detection in Toyota Safety Sense to warn the driver and brake automatically when a collision with a pedestrian is imminent.
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Cite this record
Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). Toyota Safety Sense on the Camry brakes for pedestrians at night (AIBD-0964). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 1 November 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-0964.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 7.0)