Following the implementation of AEB City and AEB Inter-Urban systems in Euro NCAP’s safety rating in 2014, a third type of AEB technology, Autonomous Emergency Braking for Vulnerable Road Users (AEB VRU), will be added to the overall assessment of new vehicles in 2016. The introduction of AEB VRU will be done in two phases where in 2016 AEB Pedestrian is implemented followed by AEB Cyclists in 2018.

AEB VRU will be awarded as part of the assessment of Pedestrian Protection and represents the next step to improve the protection of vulnerable road users, complimentary to the existing subsystem tests to the vehicle front end. Following system tests in common pedestrian accident scenarios, more challenging and demanding cyclist scenarios are planned in a subsequent phase.

In close corporation with the car industry represented by the ACEA, JAMA and KAMA associations, Euro NCAP has developed detailed test and assessment procedures for AEB Pedestrian. The procedures are based on the existing car to car AEB test and assessment protocols and validated and checked for repeatability and reproducibility at several Euro NCAP laboratories. This paper describes both the test and assessment protocols.