1. Future Assessment of VRU Safety Features
Nicholas Clarke
Chief Executive Officer
July 2013

2. Australian Road Fatalities by Road User
Source: BITRE Australian Road Deaths Database

3. Passive safety tests 64 km/h 40% frontal offset
CURRENT
FUTURE*
64 km/h 40% frontal offset
50 km/h MDB side impact
29 km/h side pole
pedestrian
whiplash
roof crush (from 2014)
Current tests
New AE-MDB side impact? (replaces MDB side impact)
New oblique side pole? (replaces side pole)
Full frontal?
64 km/h 25% frontal offset test?
* Under consideration

4. "90% of crashes in the US involve some form of human error.
Remove the dummy?
"90% of crashes in the US involve
some form of human error. 
Automation is the key in
removing that human element.”
David Strickland - NHTSA Administrator (ESV 2013)

5. The Change
Previously, passive safety test performance differentiated the good from the bad.
This differentiation point has shifted now to active safety; Safety Assist Technology (SAT).

6. SAT examples
Source: Scientific American Magazine 2008 with ANCAP overlay

7. Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB)
Detects objects in path of vehicle
Alerts driver to hazard
Applies brakes (strongly) if beyond human intervention
Source: Thatcham Research Centre UK

8. Active safety tests CURRENT FUTURE* Pass or Fail
Meet Functional Definition
Autonomous Emergency Braking:
Euro NCAP test protocols for City & Interurban AEB completed.
Performance tests from 2014 impact speed reduction.
Key elements tested:
Autonomous braking
Forward collision warning
Human machine interface
ANCAP will take Euro NCAP results (developing some capacity in Australia).
Leaves a void in ANCAP testing when vehicles not tested by Euro NCAP.
* Under consideration

9. on all new vehicle types.”
“A faster penetration of [AEB] technologies into new cars will make it more realistic for the European Union to reach its target to cut road deaths by 50% by 2020.
Consequently, Euro NCAP has decided to include AEB assessments as part of the overall star rating from 2014 onwards and hopes that European authorities will soon require AEB as mandatory
on all new vehicle types.”
Michiel van Ratingen: Secretary-General Euro NCAP 2012

10. The Goal
Where do we need to be to achieve a 50% reduction in deaths and injury by 2020?
Taking ACTION to encourage & ensure swift uptake of SAT, in particular Autonomous Emergency Braking.
Taking ACTION to continue to raise the bar for vehicle safety performance.
Taking ACTION to publicise and reward those manufacturers who introduce SAT.
Taking ACTION to improve our responsiveness to and uptake of vehicle safety initiatives from around the world.

11. Accept nothing less.
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