The Japanese government has set up the target of fatalities-from-traffic-accidents reduction. Its aim is to be at the safest traffic society in the world. However, the reduction rate of the death toll in Japan has declined but it’s still in a severe situation. Moreover, we have a rapidly aging society. This is another problem.

On the other hand, with the rise of a national safety consciousness, many cars equipped with advanced technology are available on Japan’s market including the small sized car, so called kei-car and it is in the most diffused situation in the world at a present stage. But more promotion is desired.

Nevertheless, an understanding about a difference of the performance and the characteristic of that technology are not yet understood efficiently.

Although NCAP has so far achieved big success by the technique of the information dissemination to a consumer for improvement in the safety performance of a car, extending this to the domain of advanced safety technology is called for.

JNCAP started advanced safety technology assessment from 2014 based on our roadmap. In 2014, we adjusted the protocol of the procedure of Autonomous Emergency Braking System (AEBS) test, Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS) test and an evaluation method.

In the protocol of an evaluation method, it is prescribed that an official announcement shows the overall points of several results of advanced safety technology assessment.

We are targeting the spread of technology by evaluating various advanced safety technology synthetically and thus more technical development is urged with the digitization technique of evaluating the reduction effect of a deaths and serious injury accidents based on the actual accident data from Japan.

We implemented the assessment according to these protocols and released the result of 37 models in FY2014.

So, various characteristics for every technology became clear as a result of the AEBS tests. Although various technologies, such as laser radar equipment, millimeter-wave radar equipment, mono-eye, dual-eye camera is used, we are able to discuss about the important information we should give to a consumer and the future course of the advanced safety technology depending on current test results.

Finally, I would also like to write about the future work of JNCAP based on the discussion taken in our steering committee meetings and the WGs.