Marktdurchdringung von Fahrzeugsicherheitssystemen 2019

The task of the study was to investigate the equipment of passenger cars in Germany with vehicle safety systems. After 2013, 2015 and 2017 the study was carried out again by infas in cooperation with the Institute of Automotive Engineering (ika) 2019/2020 in order to detect changes in the market penetration of the systems. For this 5,049 households were interviewed about the equipment of their vehicles.
62 vehicle safety systems were chosen for the survey. The most common systems are passive safety systems such as airbags. Both front and side airbags are now standard equipment in all vehicle segments. In contrast newer passive systems especially for pedestrian protection are predominantly present in newer models of the upper middle and upper class. Vehicle equipment also includes active systems that avoid risks or assume individual driving tasks. Most common among them are Brake Assist, ESP and Cruise Control. More than 85 percent of the vehicles are already equipped with ESP, which is required by law since 2011. Due to an EU directive the Daytime Running Light is already installed in more than half of all vehicles and will achieve full market penetration in the future. The latest developments include systems that already have automation level 1 (or level 2) of the SAE J3016 standard such as the Extended ACC or the Steering Assistant. Due to the expensive and complex technology they can only be found in a small part of the upper middle and upper class as well as in the segment of SUVs and all-terrain vehicles.
In recent years equipment in the segment of SUVs in particular has increased significantly with the result that vehicles in this segment are now equipped at a similar high level as vehicles in the upper middle and upper class. This is also related to the high number of new registrations in this segment. The number of systems increases with annual distance travelled and frequency of use, as well as for newer vehicles and company cars. Looking at the equipment rates for vehicle segments a pattern emerges: If systems are rare overall, the proportions differ considerably between the different vehicle segments in some cases.