plans to reward automated emergency steering technology and driver behaviour monitoring in future Euro NCAP safety tests are at the heart of new measures the safety organisation is rolling out in its new 2025 ‘road map’.
Euro NCAP celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and the organisation says constantly evolving test protocols have played a key part in saving an estimated 76,000 lives as manufacturers respond to customer demands for the best safety technology.
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The new Euro NCAP roadmap sets out strategic goals for 2020 to 2025. For the first time testers will be looking at the safety benefits of Autonomous emergency steering (AES) technologies that can take control to steer your vehicle around an impending accident. The basic hardware components are already fitted to many cars with self-parking technology, and Euro NCAP experts think AES will be a significant step towards the fully autonomous – or self-driving – cars of the future. The provision of Autonomous emergency Braking (AEB) is already rewarded by Euro NCAP in its current test regime, but the roadmap also includes plans to develop more informative ‘scenario-based’ AEB tests to allow consumers to make better decisions about which systems work best in a broader range of conditions.