What happened
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent nonprofit funded by auto insurers. On 22 June 2023, it gave the redesigned 2023 BMW X1 its highest award, Top Safety Pick+. IIHS credits the award to improved pedestrian detection. The standard front crash prevention system, which IIHS lists as Active Driving Assistant, earned superior ratings in the day and night pedestrian tests. In these tests, dummies cross the road or walk along it in front of the car. The 2023 X1 avoided a collision in every pedestrian test, including the 37 mph test at night with low and high beams. In that test, its warnings came 1.9 seconds before impact with high beams and 1.4 seconds with low beams. The previous X1, with a different system, had earned no credit in the daytime test. It failed to slow for the crossing adult at 12 mph. IIHS does not describe the sensors or the software of either system. These were track tests, and 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. Improved pedestrian detection boosts BMW X1 to highest award. News release, 22 June 2023.
While the previous generation of the vehicle received no credit in the easier, daytime pedestrian test, the standard front crash system supplied with the 2023 model earns superior ratings in both the daytime and nighttime vehicle-to-pedestrian evaluations.
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Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 2023 BMW X1, front crash prevention: pedestrian (day and night). Vehicle ratings page, ratings for 2023-26 models, read on 1 November 2026.
In the 37 mph test, this vehicle avoided a collision when using its high beams and a warning was issued 1.9 seconds before impact. When using its low beams, this vehicle avoided a collision and a warning was issued 1.4 seconds before impact.
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Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system. Context or contrary evidence.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 2022 BMW X1, front crash prevention: pedestrian (day), with Frontal Collision with City Collision Mitigation. Vehicle ratings page, rating for 2018-22 models, read on 1 November 2026. It gives the result of the previous X1 for comparison.
Crossing adult In the 12 mph test, this vehicle failed to slow. In the 25 mph test, impact speed was reduced by 3 mph.
Details
AI system
- Workflow
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The front crash prevention system was standard on the 2023 X1. IIHS ran crossing and walking pedestrian tests by day and, with low and high beams, at night. The night rating included credit for high-beam assist.
Follow-up
- Conditions for replication
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The pedestrian crosses the road or walks in the car's lane, as in the tested scenarios. The ratings apply to 2023-26 X1 models.
Entry details
- Sector
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Road vehicle crash avoidance.
- Purpose
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BMW built Active Driving Assistant, the standard front crash prevention system of the X1, to warn the driver and brake automatically when a collision is likely.
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Cite this record
Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). Active Driving Assistant on the 2023 X1 avoided every pedestrian dummy (AIBD-1113). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 1 November 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-1113.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 7.0)