Forty countries have agreed on a draft United Nations Regulation for Advanced Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS) for cars.
The UN says this will significantly improve road safety, especially in cities, where in the European Union alone, more 9,500 fatalities were recorded in 2016, accounting for 38% of all road deaths. In urban areas, 50% of the fatalities were drivers and 40% were pedestrians.
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The draft Regulation, adopted at UNECE, (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) will lay down technical requirements for approval of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-pedestrian AEBS fitted on cars.
Such systems employ sensors to monitor the proximity of the vehicle or pedestrian in front and detect situations where the relative speed and distance between the two vehicles or between the vehicle and pedestrian suggest a collision is imminent.
In such a situation, if the driver does not react to the system’s warning alerts, emergency braking will be automatically applied to avoid the collision or at least to mitigate its effects.
A study by Euro NCAP and Australasian NCAP concluded AEBS lead to a 38% reduction in real-world rear-end crashes at low speeds. According to estimates by the European Commission, AEBS could save more than 1,000 lives every year within the EU.
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By GlobalDataAEBS are already available for some cars in some countries, but there were no standard technical requirements guaranteeing the effective performance of such systems so far.
The new UN Regulation will impose strict and internationally harmonised requirements for the use of AEBS at low speeds, even in complex and unpredictable situations such as traffic in urban areas. The Regulation sets out test requirements for the deployment of AEBS at a range of different speeds, from 0-60 km/h.
In addition to cars, the Regulation will be applicable to all light commercial vehicles (vans and minibuses with fewer than nine passengers). With this Regulation in Force, most existing systems will have to be updated to meet stricter requirements.
The draft Regulation was approved by the Working Party on Automated/Autonomous and Connected Vehicles (GRVA) through UNECE’s World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations. The draft will be submitted to the World Forum for consideration and formal adoption at its June, 2019 session. Following its adoption, the new Regulation would enter into force in early 2020.
The EU and Japan, who together led the development of the Regulation, have announced AEBS systems would then become mandatory for all new cars and light commercial vehicles (from 2022 in the EU).
This would mean more than 15m new cars in the EU (2017 sales figures) and more than 4m new cars in Japan (2018 sales figures) would be equipped with AEBS technology every year.
