What happened
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent nonprofit funded by auto insurers. On 8 October 2026, it published its first front crash prevention ratings for commercial vehicles, seven cargo vans and four Class 3 pickups. It used the same protocols as for passenger vehicles. The Chevrolet BrightDrop 400 has Enhanced Automatic Emergency Braking with Front Pedestrian and Bicyclist Braking as standard. By day it avoided a crossing child dummy at 12 mph and cut its impact speed by 22 mph at 25 mph. At night it avoided the adult dummy in six of eight tests with low and high beams. At 37 mph it slowed by 20 mph with high beams and 18 mph with low beams. IIHS rated it good, as it did the Rivian RCV-Delivery 500. In the vehicle-to-vehicle test it avoided the car and motorcycle targets at 31 mph and warned in time in every run. IIHS rated its vehicle-to-vehicle braking acceptable. The tests ran on a track, so 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. Cargo vans and work pickups struggle in IIHS crash avoidance tests. News release, 8 October 2026. Section on pedestrian crash prevention.
Among cargo vans, the BrightDrop 400 and RCV-Delivery 500 earn good ratings, and the Sprinter 2500 earns an acceptable rating.
The Sprinter 2500 earns a good rating, the BrightDrop 400 is acceptable, and the others are marginal or poor.
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Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 2025 Chevrolet BrightDrop 400, front crash prevention ratings. Commercial vehicle ratings page, read on 1 November 2026. The quoted results are for the adult dummy walking along the road at night.
In the 37 mph test, impact speed was reduced by 20 mph when using its high beams and a warning was issued 2.3 seconds before impact. When using its low beams, impact speed was reduced by 18 mph and a warning was issued 1.5 seconds before impact.
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AI system
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Enhanced Automatic Emergency Braking with Front Pedestrian and Bicyclist Braking was standard on the BrightDrop 400. IIHS used the same test protocols and rating requirements as for passenger vehicles. The pedestrian score included credit for high-beam assist.
Follow-up
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The pedestrian crosses the road or walks in the van's lane, as in the tested scenarios. The van travels at the lower test speeds, since it slowed but did not avoid the walking adult at 37 mph.
Entry details
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Road vehicle crash avoidance.
- Purpose
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General Motors built Enhanced Automatic Emergency Braking with Front Pedestrian and Bicyclist Braking to warn the driver and brake for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists ahead.
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Cite this record
Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). BrightDrop 400's Front Pedestrian and Bicyclist Braking rates good (AIBD-1097). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 1 November 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-1097.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 7.0)