"Automatic braking" will be mandatory from November 2021! How will the advanced functions that have spread all at once in 10 years evolve in the future?

Increased awareness triggered by "cars that do not collide"

Recently, so-called "automatic braking" is becoming more widespread. Officially, it is called "collision damage mitigation brake", but recently, some of the various materials created by the government have come to use the expression "automatic brake", which is generally well known. [Image] How popular is automatic braking in the "collision damage mitigation brakes" (10 sheets) that prevent "Oh, bump!"

"Collision damage mitigation brake" that will be mandatory from November 2021

According to the materials of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, in 2011, 10 years ago from now (2021), it was only 1.4% of the total number of passenger cars sold in Japan, but in 2013 it was 15.4%. After that, it increased at a stretch to 45.4% in 2015. It continued to rise to 66.2% in 2016, 77.8% in 2017, and 84.8% in 2018, reaching 95.8% in the latest 2020. And from November 2021, it will be legally obligatory to install domestic cars on new models. But why has automatic braking become so popular in the last 10 years? When I returned the hands of the clock a little, the reason why the existence of automatic braking became generally known was Subaru (at that time Fuji Heavy Industries) that used two cameras (stereo cameras) like the human eye. ) Is an advertisement called "a car that does not collide". A famous talent got on a Subaru car and introduced a scene where automatic braking is activated on TV commercials. This is about the "EyeSight" that was installed from the "Legacy" in the late 2000s. In Subaru, "Active Driving Assist (ADA)" was set as the predecessor product of EyeSight from the 1980s, and improvements have been made since then, but only a small number of users know its existence. It was a special device. It gradually evolved to become EyeSight, and it became an atmosphere of the world where users themselves were strongly aware of safe driving. When the author (Kenji Momota) interviewed Subaru officials at the time from the late 2000s to the early 2010s, he said, "Honestly, I didn't expect that EyeSight would be so strongly supported by dealers and users." It was enough to leak the real intention. In addition, dealers of other manufacturers such as Toyota have begun to say, "We also need products like EyeSight. Users are increasing such requests." On the other hand, looking overseas, at the same time as the evolution of EyeSight, Mobileye, a venture company headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel (currently under the umbrella of Intel in the United States), has improved image recognition technology with a single camera. With the planning and design of semiconductors compatible with automatic braking, it will attract the world's attention. The author (Kenji Momota) interviewed Mobileye's head office independently in the 2010s and asked in detail about the company's origins and relationships with each automobile manufacturer. At that time, Volvo, GM, and Audi were public. Nissan and Mazda will be added here. In this way, Subaru's EyeSight and Mobileye have solidified the ground for the spread of automatic braking globally.