Advanced Heavy Vehicle Safety Technology

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§  Automated vehicles where vehicles never (or almost nearly) crash

-  Google car

-  Vehicle platooning

Long term vision

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The pathway to driving automation

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§  Electronic stability control

§  Mandatory on all new cars

§  Reduces single vehicle run off road crashes by 33 per cent

Recent past

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§  Front under-run protection

§  Cabin strength

Recent past

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§  Australia has a National Heavy Vehicle Braking Strategy

§  Heavy vehicle anti-lock brakes, load proportioning valves for all new prime movers and trailers

§  Electronic stability control to be required on all new heavy vehicles – consultation paper later this year

Current State

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§  More sensors, longitudinal control, lateral control, increased object detection

§  ‘Roads that cars/trucks can read’

§  The ‘virtual crash barrier’

The near future – increased driver assistance for safety

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§  Forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking (front crashes)

§  Blind spot warning

§  Rear view assist (cameras, ultrasonics, radar)

§  Adaptive headlamps

§  – Steering responsive

§  – Automatic high beams

§  Cross traffic alert – front and rear

§  Night view assist

§  Highway pilot – adaptive cruise with lane keeping control

§  Pedestrian detection and avoidance

§  Unintentional lane departure warning and prevention (active assist)

Near future – understanding crash avoidance features already on vehicles

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§  Technologies considered: -  Electronic Stability Control -  Autonomous Emergency Braking Systems -  Fatigue Warning Systems -  Lane Departure Warning Systems.

§  Benefits were estimated in terms of savings of fatal, serious and minor injuries, as well as for property damage only crashes.

Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC): Crash avoidance technologies in heavy vehicles report.

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§  Fitment of Automated Emergency Brakes to all heavy vehicles could produce a 25 per cent fatal crash decrease

§  Fitment of Lane Departure Warning, Electronic Stability Control and Fatigue Warning Systems to all heavy vehicles could each reduce fatal heavy vehicle crashes by another 4% to 6%

§  Adding Autonomous Emergency Braking Systems to heavy vehicles will prevent up to a quarter of fatal crashes, which translates to $187 million.

Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC): Crash avoidance technologies in heavy vehicles report.

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V2X Communication

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Uptake of Swerve Stability Control in Vehicles Pathway to new technologies is long

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How has vehicle safety contributed?

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Victorian fatalities by year 1969 - Mandatory seatbelts, seat anchorages

1977  -­‐  Mandatory  side  impact  structures  

1972  -­‐  Mandatory  head  restra7nts  

1993  -­‐  ANCAP  introduced  1995  -­‐  Full  frontal  crash  protec7on  

2003/4  -­‐  Side  and    offset  frontal    crash  protec7on  

2013  -­‐  Mandatory  Electronic  stability  control  

1988  -­‐  Mandatory  child  restraint  anchorages  

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How has vehicle design safety contributed?

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§  Safety Technologies for Heavy Vehicles and Combinations

§  Safe Wheels Save Lives Simulator

§  Advocacy at the national level for new Australian Design Rules

§  Contributing research to the national agenda

How does VicRoads work to influence vehicle design?

Regulatory push

Market pull

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Victoria’s vehicle safety program in action