Draft Standard For Emergency Braking System For Buses, Trucks Issued By MoRTH; Enables Automatic Detection Of Forward Collision

The Road Transport and Highways Ministry has issued a draft automotive standard for “Advanced Emergency Braking System” (AEBS) for buses and trucks, for automatic detection of a potential forward collision and to activate braking systems to avoid crashes.

To begin with, this would be an optional feature in vehicles, meaning it would be up to the manufacturers whether they want to incorporate this feature or not.

The vehicle will have sensors to detect any risk ahead and these will be connected to the electronic control system.

As per the draft standard, the AEBS will automatically detect a potential forward collision and will provide the driver with a warning.

It will activate the vehicle braking system to de-accelerate the vehicle to avoid or mitigate the severity of a collision, if the driver does not respond quickly to the warning.

The proposed standard said the system will give a minimum acoustic or haptic warning of a critical situation to alert the driver to act.

It said that AEBS will detect the possible collision with a preceding vehicle on the same lane and it should work when the vehicle is moving at a minimum speed of 25 kmph and up to maximum design speed.

In another move to avoid crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists, the Ministry has also issued a draft standard for approval of buses and trucks having an onboard system to detect and alert the driver of the presence of pedestrians and cyclists in the close-proximity, forward blind-spot of the vehicle. The system will warn the driver of the potential collision.

The provision for the driver assistance system is being made considering that even after increasing the number of mirrors to provide better visibility of the area in front of the vehicle, there have been crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists.