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Automotive Active Safety Systems Report (Volumes I & II)
SupplierBusiness, June 2009, Pages: 267
This 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.
The report is presented in two parts.
Volume I covers an analysis of the market for active safety systems and a forecast based on a combination of market demand expectations, industry positioning, technology readiness level and legislative trends. It also exposes five issues in policymaking, which appear to be contradictory and impediments to faster application. Some solutions are suggested.
It describes the Stakeholders involved: the degree of their involvement in infrastructure, vehicle and driver issues compared to safety systems and components. and their attitudes; in particular the central role of the EU and the various EU bodies dedicated to the promotion of active safety systems. It lists the current position of the EU relating to each safety system. Other stakeholders roles examined are those of academic institutions, road safety test laboratories and tracks, consumer road safety lobbies, consultancies, publications, insurance industry, car makers and component manufacturers.
Some key stakeholders have been extremely active in assessing the impact of active safety systems: a chapter examines issues related to the insurance industry, type approval, testing in service, driver training. It also covers motivators for vehicle buyers to purchase safety systems, the rationale of choice and the role of fleets. A chapter touches on the evolution of the technologies including Human Machine Interface, Vehicle to Vehicle, Vehicle to Infrastructure and Pure Infrastructure based projects. The effectiveness of Active safety systems is examined based on R&D results.
The main areas of investigation are Europe and North America, however, reference is made to developments in the other major markets in Japan, Brazil, Russia, India, China, where relevant to the project.
A chapter covers issues that affect market development with a discussion on influences that can drive change. Another chapter covers arguments in favour of mandation, the context of the macroeconomy, how microeconomic trends affect the car industry, progression in technology, accident rates, the influence of system cost, competition between safety systems, the influence of vehicle segmentation, the views of car makers, systems suppliers and traders.
The report also looks at which segment of the supply chain can benefit from active safety systems, promotion, advertising and marketing issues, the role of supply push,demand pull and tipping point.
An appendix gives further reference to EC Framework Programmes.
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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