Around 40 per cent of compact cars are set to benefit from Advanced Driver Assistance Systems by 2018.
That’s the verdict of Frost & Sullivan, which suggests that technological developments – including the integration of radars and cameras, as well as sensor fusion between multiple applications – are driving costs down. As such, systems like lane departure warning, intelligent headlamp control, traffic sign recognition and driver monitoring, could soon be commonplace in compact vehicles.
According to analyst Manish Garg, carmakers are no longer developing sensors for the premium vehicle segment – instead they are looking to all types of vehicles in order to develop a portfolio for the sensors. This could help in efforts to achieve the European Union’s Transport Policy 2011-2020 goal of reducing road fatalities by 50 per cent.
Research by the German Association of Insurers suggests that lane departure warning alone could prevent up to 15 per cent of road fatalities; while intersection assist could cut road accidents in Germany by around 35 per cent.
Now suppliers from the likes of Bosch, TRW and Continental are working closely with automakers from product concept to development to help achieve economies of scale and reduce prices.
