Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are becoming more and more common. actually they are
advanced systems which, thanks to the technological innovations of recent years, help us perform tasks and, most importantly, save lives. If implemented across the fleet, it is estimated that they could prevent more than 50,000 accidents per year, 850 deaths and 4,500 in-patients.
One of the most popular or well-known is the parking assistant, which offers numerous
headache to the least skilled when it comes to parking. But to this invention we also have to add the autonomous braking system, involuntary lane change warning, drowsiness and fatigue control and alcohol interlock, an immobilizer for alcohol consumption. These are some of the advanced systems that will also be mandatory in new vehicles from July 2022.
So in cars
approved from July 6 this year Automatic emergency braking, involuntary lane change assistant, intelligent speed assistant, drowsiness, rear view camera, and distraction and drowsiness warnings are mandatory. In addition, in all vehicles registered from July 6, 2022, the warning of unfastened seat belts in all seats and the tire pressure sensor are already mandatory.
The Belron Group – to which Carglass Spain belongs – has conducted tests in the UK with the TRL Research Institute to assess the effects of poor recalibration. A protocol has been designed
tests similar to those of static tests and Euro NCAP dynamics for the AEB system. In it, the tested car was launched at 50 km/h against a static obstacle (in the form of a car and a motorcycle), with an overlap of 100%, -50% and +50%; against an object simulated as a pedestrian, static and in motion (crossing a street); and against another simulating a crossing cyclist.
These tests have shown a significant reduction in performance of AEB’s automatic emergency braking system when the calibration of the windshield-mounted camera deviated from the manufacturer’s specifications. This results in a delayed braking response and even in a collision with the obstacle,
when the margin of error of calibration was tested further from the specifications.
The report concluded that poor recalibration poses a safety risk to vehicle occupants and other road users. The images of the tests (video), conducted on state-of-the-art cars, are revealing:
a car with its ADAS systems incorrectly calibrated It can cause a collision or collision because the system cannot correctly calculate the distances or the braking time and force.
The recalibration of ADAS systems should be performed by professionals with the appropriate training, experience, methodology, facilities and technology.
ADAS systems need “eyes” that see what is happening around the car and collect this information to make a reliable recognition of the environment and that the security systems can react to it. Those “eyes” are cameras and sensors, most of which are installed on the windshield.
When to replace a windscreen?, you need to remove the cameras from the broken glass and mount them on the new ones. Once installed, these systems must be recalibrated to ensure they operate with maximum accuracy and provide the correct information. We must not forget that the ADAS systems can take control of the car, the driver trusts them and waits for their reaction to warn him of a risk situation or to intervene.
Among the proposals that
International Automobile Federation (FIA) submitted to the European Parliament with the aim of maximizing the benefits of ADAS systems before their mandatory implementation, “ensuring transparent calibration processes so that ADAS systems maintain their effectiveness over time”. The most common reason ADAS systems can fail is because their cameras and sensors have not been recalibrated or the operation has not been performed correctly.
Source: La Verdad
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