Not sure how else to share this other than this link. Hopefully it works
x.com/teslajigsaw/status/2002380466452578465?s=46&t=3x9zm3grA2b_uGbxWYtpIA
What Car were doing a test of electric cars when a Mercedes decided to slam on the brakes itself and got rear ended by a Tesla. Thankfully only at 20mph and possible reason for this was there was a lead car with a cameraman in the open boot!
My daughter has a BYD Seal udmi and there are various posts on the FB group of the car slamming on the brakes and scaring the bejesus out of the driver! Often when joining a roundabout.
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Here is the full what car report on youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoVIr1pomww
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If you follow the video to the end the Mercedes investigation revealed it had detected a pedestrian - and in some respects it's correct as they had a person in the open back of the car in front filming towards the Merc.
Last edited by: BigJohn on Sat 20 Dec 25 at 20:13
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>> If you follow the video to the end the Mercedes investigation revealed it had detected
>> a pedestrian - and in some respects it's correct as they had a person in
>> the open back of the car in front filming towards the Merc.
I can assure you a man squating with a camera in the back of a car in front looks nothing like a pedestrian.
At the end of the day, it was a stupid manouvre they carried out.
Last edited by: Zero on Sat 20 Dec 25 at 20:31
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The problem is that the "ignore cameraman crouched in preceding car" setting on the Merc is buried far too deep in some obscure touchscreen sub-menu.
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On a more serious note, though there may be questions to be asked about the MB safety systems, such braking might be carried out under non-autonomous conditions by driver action. (Say if the cameraman fell from the back of the film car).
The Tesla driver was effectively tailgating, the MG possibly (just) not.
I've not experienced AEB (though a few advanced collision warnings when cornering with a parked car outside the apex) until a couple of weeks ago heading south on the A46 at the rear of flowing traffic. A car coming the other way had it's dog lights on with the offside hanging by it's wires and bouncing up and down on the road. It distracted me but briefly, but simultaneously the traffic in front slowed abruptly. I always leave a requisite gap and was able to recover quite nicely, but I was quite grateful for the intervention.
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>> I always leave a requisite gap and was able to recover quite nicely, but I
>> was quite grateful for the intervention.
The system in my Volvo saved the life of a girl who dashed out between two parked cars into my path. The Volvo stood on its nose in a way I could never have done, leaving the girl staring at me in shock with her fingertips on the bonnet
The beemer has thrown on the anchors once, and always warns me on my way home as I go over a single lane humped back bridge that needs a sharpish left to avoid a keep left bollard.
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What Car? Crash on test - Zero
