Systems which help drivers to avoid or mitigate crashes are already on sale.
In the ever-escalating technology wars over auto safety, Euro NCAP said today that it is currently testing a number of European cars equipped with crash avoidance technologies. The first results will be published on 29 October in a move that foreshadows the inclusion of such systems in the overall safety rating next year.
Euro NCAP will assess both low-speed (City) and higher speed (Inter-Urban) systems to see how well Autonomous Emergency Braking and Forward Collision Warning systems help drivers avoid or to mitigate a crash. A similar protocol adopted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, aka IIHS, is behind their first crash avoidance ratings of low-speed systems in the United States today.
“Systems which help drivers to avoid or mitigate crashes are already in the marketplace and will become commonplace in the coming years,” said Michiel van Ratingen, Secretary General of Euro NCAP. “Euro NCAP will lead the assessment of such technologies and its protocols will be the benchmark to help consumers differentiate good systems from bad ones.”
