Auto brakes required for new cars Next year's legal revision in January next year 2021 12:55 on November 27
As the accident of an elderly driver becomes a serious social problem, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism decided to revise the law of the Road Transport Vehicle Law in January next year to make it necessary to install automatic brakes on new cars. . It will be applied as early as 2021.
Automatic brakes that reduce the impact of automobile collisions are being introduced to new cars amid serious accidents involving elderly drivers, and are installed in 84.6% of new cars produced domestically last year. .
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism decided to revise the notification of the “Road Transport Vehicle Law” in January next year and make it mandatory to install automatic brakes on new vehicles sold in Japan in order to further promote automatic braking. It was.
As for the performance of automatic brakes, there are variations in performance depending on manufacturers and vehicle types, and there was no uniform standard.
In this standard, even if you drive at 30 km / h, you will not hit a pedestrian crossing the road, you will not collide with a car that has stopped at 40 km / h, you are running at 60 km / h, and you are ahead It is supposed not to collide with a car running at 20 km.
The timing is expected to be applied as early as 2021.