Euro NCAP will publish the first results of tests of vehicles equipped with crash avoidance technologies at the end of next month.

Such systems will be incorporated in the overall safety rating next year. Following the completion of detailed protocols to test the effectiveness of autonomous emergency braking and forward collision warning systems, Euro NCAP will assess both low-speed, city, and higher speed, inter-urban, systems to see how well they help drivers to avoid or to mitigate a crash.

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A similar protocol has been adopted by IIHS, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which releases its first crash avoidance ratings of low-speed systems in the US today.

Michiel van Ratingen, secretary general of Euro NCAP, said: “Systems which help drivers to avoid or mitigate crashes are already in the marketplace and will become commonplace in the coming years. 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.”

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