Collision Avoidance Assist and Lane Assist earn the Model 3 94%

ANCAP rated the Tesla Model 3 in July 2019. Its emergency braking, lane support and other driver assistance systems scored 94% for Safety Assist, the highest against ANCAP's protocols then.

  • Not rated a person

    People in the Model 3 stand to gain, but ANCAP reports test scores and no crash outcomes.

  • Not rated society

    Pedestrians, cyclists and people in other vehicles stand to gain, but ANCAP reports test scores and no crash outcomes.

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

Status
Reported benefit.
Evidence

foundstudiedreportedclaimed

Two independent assessment reports support the benefit.

Compared with

Every other car that ANCAP had rated against the same protocols. Measured.

The system’s part
Not isolated. ANCAP tested the car with its systems on and ran no test without them, so the scores describe the systems on the track. Its release and report describe what the systems do. They do not describe how the systems detect vehicles, people or lane markings. Tesla wrote in October 2016 that all its new cars, the Model 3 included, would run a Tesla-developed neural net for vision, sonar and radar processing. A neural net is a model trained on data. Tesla added that it would enable automatic emergency braking and lane holding on that hardware over the air once validated.
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Benefit type
Increased Product Safety
System
Collision Avoidance Assist (autonomous emergency braking) and Lane Assist (lane support with emergency lane keeping), as fitted to the Tesla Model 3 (2019)
Made by
Tesla
Used by
Tesla (standard on the Model 3 in Australia and New Zealand)
Where
Australia and New Zealand
Stage
In routine use
Date
, when the source was published
Kind
Aggregate result
Broad benefit
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events, Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
Collections
Scrutiny and findings, Cross-border records
Last revised
1 November 2026

Sources

  1. Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system.

    ANCAP (Australasian New Car Assessment Program). Tesla Model 3 achieves high scores in active and passive safety, along with Audi A6. Media release, 30 July 2019, paragraph 3.

    Of equal note was the 94% score for Safety Assist - the highest Safety Assist score achieved against current protocols.

  2. Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system.

    ANCAP. Safety rating technical report, Tesla Model 3 (August 2019 to December 2023, all variants). Rating published July 2019, page 6, Safety Assist.

    Tests of the AEB system showed GOOD performance in highway speed scenarios with collisions avoided or mitigated in most scenarios.

  3. Press release, by the makers. Context or contrary evidence.

    Tesla. All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware. Tesla blog, 19 October 2016, archived copy of 18 October 2020. Cited for the neural net that Tesla's onboard computer runs for vision processing.

    To make sense of all of this data, a new onboard computer with more than 40 times the computing power of the previous generation runs the new Tesla-developed neural net for vision, sonar and radar processing software.

Details

AI system

Workflow

Autonomous emergency braking, lane support with emergency lane keeping and a speed assistance system were standard on every Model 3 variant. The test car was a left-hand-drive Model 3 Long Range built in 2019. The scores came from tests under the protocols that ANCAP applied in 2019.

Follow-up

Conditions for replication

The rating covers Model 3 cars sold in Australia and New Zealand from August 2019 to December 2023. The braking works from 8 to 150 km/h and the lane support from 40 to 145 km/h.

Entry details

Sector

Road vehicle crash avoidance.

Purpose

Tesla built Collision Avoidance Assist to warn the driver and brake automatically when a collision is imminent. It built Lane Assist to keep the car from drifting out of its lane.

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Cite this record

Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). Collision Avoidance Assist and Lane Assist earn the Model 3 94% (AIBD-1106). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 1 November 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-1106.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 7.0)

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