Abstract
Report Overview
This SupplierBusiness / Knibb Gormezano Partners report, covers Active Safety
Systems in Light Duty Vehicles including passenger cars, light trucks, SUVs
and MPVs. Road safety failures are a major stain on the record of an advanced
society. No better example of Society' s failure on the safety front is its
past inability to control and reduce death and injury on the roads.
This has been recognised by the European Commission and has resulted in a
number of major initiatives to improve safety with the short-term target of
halving the 40,000 annual death toll. Member states have also embarked on
their own plans in support of this objective. Improvements fall into a number
of categories:
- 1. Driver education and training
- 2. Stimulating improved crashworthiness of vehicles via programmes such as
EuroNCAP;
- 3. Supporting and promoting improved crash avoidance technology in
vehicles such as ESC;
- 4. Initiatives for better road design (e.g. EuroRAP);
- 5. Infrastructure improvements;
- 6. Vehicle to Infrastructure communications (e.g. e- Call);
- 7. Greater law enforcement effort targeted at driver behaviour;
- 8. More rigorous and extended forms of vehicle condition testing.
The current two-volume report focuses on point 3 and incorporates various
aspects under Point 6. Its puurpose is to provide a comprehensive overview and
some detailed analysis of the subject in terms of markets, technologies,
adoption rate forecasts and government policies. It is complemented by a
survey of stakeholder attitudes conducted by SupplierBusiness and available
separately.
This report into Active Safety Systems for light duty vehicles has been
undertaken in response to a growing interest among vehicle manufacturers,
systems and component suppliers, engineering design and testing services
companies, transport operators and regulatory bodies to find ways to reduce
road accidents involving passenger cars and make a significant contribution to
the European Commission' s target of halving road deaths by 2010 and to achieve
similar goals in the USA.
Vehicle manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers are investing heavily in Active
Safety Systems despite prevailing economic conditions and KGP believes that
the time is right to examine, to what extent Active Safety Systems on
passenger cars might evolve over the coming years and, more importantly, to
what extent they might contribute to reductions in accident rates.
The research for this report was undertaken during the autumn of 2008 and
early 2009. This included study of the available and emerging Active Safety
Systems, interviews with manufacturers, suppliers, NGOs and legislators.
The aims were to provide:
- A route map for the introduction of active safety systems in passenger
cars and adoption rate scenarios;
- Observations on the impact of systems on accident avoidance;
- Suggested actions for the industry and regulatory bodies.
- Profiles of the key companies involved in the design and manufacture of
active safety systems worldwide.
Volume II covers active safety system technologies:
The study investigated 33 technologies which are pure active safety systems
grouped under the main categories of Traction Systems, Suspension Systems,
Dynamic Drive Systems, Lighting Systems, Speed Influencing Systems, and those
which have some evolving active safety element such as Tracker Systems and
even Alcohol Interlock Systems and Automatic Transmissions. Issues covered
include a history of the technology. Some safety systems have evolved from
passive to active functionality. If both passive and active systems are
available and there are varying functionalities of different generations of
the devices, these are described. The benefits to society of the active safety
system are detailed in terms of R&D or Field Operational Trials made by
independent research organisations, insurers, or the car makers themselves.
Statistical data collected on fatal accidents and the lives saved using the
devices, is presented where available. The latest regulations and legislation
of the EC are described, including any supporting activities by the EC. Each
section ends with an analysis of the suppliers of safety systems and car
makers using them, as well as average price levels of the safety systems.
A description of enabling technologies including the role of sensors and the
AUTOSAR common system architecture initiative is provided.
Volume II culminates in profiles of all the key suppliers of active safety
related products to the industry globally
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