# Google Research — Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-01-13T22:44:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1377-hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk

Google Research establishes a positive association between hard-braking events (HBEs) collected via Android Auto and actual road segment crash rates, suggesting HBEs can be used as leading measures for road safety assessment.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/:

> We establish a positive association between hard-braking events (HBEs) collected via Android Auto and actual road segment crash rates.

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