"Emergency Automatic Braking Obligation" Significance of Further Strengthening It will start in November, but the scope will be expanded as soon as possible

New safety standards will be applied to new passenger cars that will appear in November. That is the "obligation of collision damage mitigation braking".

Collision damage mitigation braking, also known as pre-crash safety braking or AEBS, automatically applies the brakes after warning the driver when the possibility of a collision with a vehicle or pedestrian is detected. It's a system that works.

The system is named by the manufacturer as "Toyota Safety Sense", "Honda SENSING", "EyeSight", etc.

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A revision to the Road Transport Vehicle Act that mandates collision damage mitigation braking was promulgated and enforced on January 31, 2020. Applicable to new domestic vehicles from November 2021, new imported vehicles from July 2024, continued production of domestic vehicles from December 2025 (light trucks from September 2027), imported vehicles Continued production vehicles will be in July 2026.

By the way, the same obligation in Europe will be in July 2024, and the introduction of the obligation in Japan will be the first in the world.

Stopped vehicles, moving vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles

The specific regulations for collision damage mitigation braking that will be made compulsory this time are: "Do not collide with a vehicle traveling at 20 km/h while it is traveling at 60 km/h" "Do not collide with a vehicle traveling at 60 km/h" "A dummy equivalent to a 6-year-old child At 30 km, head towards it and not collide."

At the same time, it is also required to "restart the system and stand by every time the engine is started" and "warn 0.8 seconds before emergency braking".

Also, in the application from November, "stopped vehicles", "running vehicles" and "pedestrians" were targeted, but further revisions are scheduled for this September, so "bicycles" will also be subject decided to join.

Pedestrian and bicycle detection image of Subaru “EyeSight” (Photo: SUBARU) is July 2026 (September 2027 for light trucks), and July 2026 for continued production of imported vehicles.

In other words, starting with a domestic new model in November 2021, followed by a new imported model, a domestic continuous production model, and a continuous production model of an imported model, by July 2026, all new models will be It will be equipped with a collision damage mitigation brake. Five years from now, everything will change.

"Collision damage mitigation braking mandatory" may sound like a big deal. However, the reality is a little different. In fact, the overall impact on the Japanese market is small. This is because collision damage mitigation braking systems are already widespread in Japan.