Truck & Off-Highway Engineering - August 2024 - 20

EURO NCAP
details new testing for
TESTING | ADAS FEATURE
heavy-truck safety rating
" Best-practice test methods
developed over the last decade for
passenger cars can be turned into
useful guidelines for the design of
future, safer heavy trucks. "
- Michiel van Ratingen,
secretary general Euro NCAP
Scania applauds Euro NCAP's scaled approach to safety testing, with an initial
focus on collision avoidance and driver vision systems. Active-safety maneuvering
requirements will increase and crash testing for passive safety protection will
come in future iterations.
and camera monitor systems (aka eMirrors) that present a larger field
of view with less image distortion than traditional mirrors and can be
integrated with blind spot information and warning systems.
Another important technology, AEB VRU systems, could prevent a
third of all heavy-truck-to-pedestrian crashes, according to Euro NCAP.
These systems fuse camera and radar data to detect crossing pedestrians,
cyclists and scooter riders, and warn the driver or automatically
brake the truck. Euro NCAP wants all manufacturers to
fit AEB VRU technology but notes that only one truck
maker has a system in production.
Scania put out a statement welcoming Euro NCAP's
new system for safety testing of heavy trucks. " We see
the Euro NCAP initiative as part of a new and interesting
aspect in our development processes, " said Jacob
Thärnå, head of sustainable transports at Scania Trucks.
" Assessing safety-related functionality in trucks is a lot
more complicated task than it is for passenger cars.
Heavy trucks are very diverse, and they are made that
way for a reason. Euro NCAP's approach to start on a
small scale and learn as they go is a wise decision. "
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