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Watch: Prius, cyclist spared from tractor-trailer thanks to ZF OnGuardMAX

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Updated Oct 28, 2022

A tractor-trailer versus a Prius and then a cyclist would have been absolute carnage if not for ZF’s latest OnGuardMAX Autonomous Emergency Braking System.

CCJ Senior Editor Tom Quimby recently rode along with ZF field service team leader Chuck Brodie at the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty, Ohio to see how ZF’s third-gen OnGuardMAX would enable an International LT to stop just short of striking the mock Prius and next a crash dummy atop a bicycle.

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