What happened
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent nonprofit funded by auto insurers. On 21 February 2019, it published its first ratings of automatic braking for pedestrians, for 11 small SUVs. Pedestrian detection is standard on the 2019 Subaru Forester through its EyeSight Driver-Assist System. In the crossing tests at 12 and 25 mph, a child dummy ran out from behind parked vehicles and an adult dummy walked across the road. In a third test, an adult dummy walked in the car's lane near the road edge with its back to traffic. Scores came from average speed reductions over five runs on dry pavement. The Forester avoided the child and adult dummies in every crossing test. It also avoided the walking adult at 25 mph. At 37 mph it warned 3.3 seconds before impact and cut its impact speed by 6 mph. With the Honda CR-V, it was one of two small SUVs to earn credit for that warning. IIHS rated the Forester superior, its top rating, for 2019 to 2021 models. 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. New ratings address pedestrian crashes. News release, 21 February 2019.
Only the Forester and RAV4 avoided hitting the dummies in every perpendicular test.
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Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 2019 Subaru Forester 4-door SUV, front crash prevention: pedestrian (day), standard EyeSight Driver-Assist System. Vehicle ratings page, rating for 2019-21 models, read on 1 November 2026.
Parallel adult In the 25 mph test, this vehicle avoided a collision. In the 37 mph test, impact speed was reduced by 6 mph. A warning was issued 3.3 seconds before impact.
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AI system
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EyeSight with pedestrian detection was standard on the 2019 Forester. IIHS scored the average speed reduction over five runs of each test on dry pavement. The crossing tests ran at 12 and 25 mph and the walking-adult test at 25 and 37 mph.
Follow-up
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The pedestrian crosses in front of the car or walks along the road edge, as in the tests. The driver acts on the warning when the car nears a walking adult at 37 mph, since the braking then cut the impact speed by only 6 mph.
Entry details
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Road vehicle crash avoidance.
- Purpose
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Subaru built EyeSight to warn the driver and brake automatically when a collision with a vehicle or a pedestrian ahead is likely.
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Cite this record
Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). EyeSight on the 2019 Forester avoided every crossing dummy at IIHS (AIBD-0976). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 1 November 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-0976.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 7.0)