Tesla Ranked Last: ADAC Tests 10 Cars for Maneuver Safety
13 August 2025, 14:37
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The European safety regulations say that cars that want to take maximum qualifications must have advanced assistance systems for maneuvers, in order to be able to detect pedestrians and vulnerable traffic participants. And not only to detect, but also to warn the driver and even interrupt the maneuver by braking if necessary. Recently the Germans from ADAC They tested 10 popular cars, to see how safe they are on the maneuver. There were cars with exemplary behavior in each situation, but there were also those that were at the minimum admissible limit, Tesla Model Y occupying the last position.
The models included in this test were the BMW X3, Byd Seal, Ford Puma, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Mercedes E-Class, Renault R5, Skoda EnyQ, Tesla Model Y, Volvo Ex30 and VW Tiguan. Therefore, in the test were included both electrical and combustion models.
The Germans mention that Tesla Model Y in the test is the one before facelift, so it is possible to version after facelift to be improved in this chapter.
The test included multiple scenarios that can take place when traveling – the presence of a pedestrian behind the car, a person crossing the road, a person who is at an angle of 90 degrees to the car. Also, there was also a scenario in which a child on a toy car would be behind the car, at a height that cannot be seen through the rear and mirrors, this scenario being one of the most difficult to notice in real life.
The scenarios of the presence of an obstacle or a car passing by or a bicycle that travel by 15 km/h were also replicated.
The cars traveled at speeds between 4 and 8 km/h in marching, and the test rule said that if there is a failure, two attempts are given to the same car. If the test is successful from the first attempt, only one attempt takes place.
Four of the cars had exemplary results, with a 100% operating rate in all scenarios. These cars are the BMW X3, Ford Puma, Volvo Ex30 and VW Tiguan. These models have correctly detected all situations and intervened to avoid incidents.
Hyundai Ioniq 5 had a rate to identify the child on the car, braking too late. In the rest of the scenarios he had a safe behavior.
Mercedes E-Class had a problem in the same chapter and was not braked at all, not just late, as Hyundai did.
Skoda Enyq had failures at several scenarios, the ones from ADAC saying that the system intervenes sporadically, and sometimes failing to do it, including pedestrians. And here the model was up to facelift, though.
Byd Seal only identifies the rear traffic, but not the pedestrians or obstacles. Therefore, the Chinese car had no saving intervention in these scenarios.
Renault 5 identifies traffic, but does not brake, but only notifies the driver. Instead, the French car brakes in pedestrians and obstacles.
About Tesla, the Germans say that it only brakes only in the pedestrian scenario. In all other scenarios, she came to collision. For this reason, he received the lowest score.
Technical experts from ADAC say that the technology on which these systems are based on can be different, some models using ultrasonic sensors, and others and radars or video cameras. The combination of radars and ultrasonic sensors proves to be very reliable, but also the application of higher range sensors and a good software to understand the correct data can work well.
ADAC thus recommended to producers to install such systems not only optionally on their cars, but standard, as their benefits are major in real life and greatly reduce the incident rate, both minor and potential to be serious.
See below the table with scores for each of the 10 models.
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