The application of active anti-roll systems for commercial vehicles has a far better potential to increase safety than application on passenger cars does. A realistic improvement of the stability (lateral acceleration) with up to 45% can be achieved. The reason that application on commercial vehicles still is virtually non-existing may lay in the high costs in terms of loss of payload, investments and expected energy consumption. The application of systems dedicated to only roll-control (active stabilizer) might prove feasible in the near future and are worth more detailed study. The effects of the driver-support system are hard to predict reliably and should be studied and, when applicable, demonstrated in order to get them accepted by drivers.
Abstract