Active safety systems are massively implemented into new vehicle generations and offer a high potential in decreasing road accidents. While testingand rating of the passive safety of vehicles are based on established andaccepted methods and programmes, no such are available for active safety of cars or trucks today. Thus it is difficult to assess the performance ofthose systems for industry, legislation and further stakeholders. In particular, the customer cannot judge about the active safety of different vehicles based on easy-to-understand ratings as they are offered by differentNCAP programmes. This leads to a relatively low awareness of active safety systems and hinders a high market penetration. The main focus of the European research project "Testing and Evaluation Methods for ICT-based Safety Systems (eVALUE)" is to define objective methods for the assessment of active safety systems. The methods are based on relevant traffic scenarios that, according to investigated statistics and databases, represent the majority of accidents, where active safety systems can come into effect. Theconsidered systems are chosen based on market availability and penetration, e.g. ACC, Lane Keeping Assistant or ESC. Both the systems as well as the scenarios are clustered into four different domains, each being addressed with distinctive test procedures. In the end, this new and highly neededtest programme will allow the assessment of the overall safety performance of a vehicle with respect to active safety systems. However, the eVALUE consortium will only define the test methods while the thresholds for the specific values are not specified. This remains the competence of every institution adopting the test methods and actually applying them in order toassess different vehicles. The later results of the programme will increase the public awareness for active safety systems and foster the development within the industry. The full text of this paper may be found at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv21/09-0137.pdf For the covering abstract see ITRD E145407.
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