In Forward Emergency Braking, if the system determines that the odds of collision is high, or that a collision will occur, the warning lamp and buzzer will urge the driver to take evasive action to avoid collision, and if in case the driver is unable to safely decelerate, the emergency brake will automatically apply to avoid or reduce the damage caused by collision.
This represents a major step toward implementing the technology to nearly all of its vehicle categories in Japan, including electric and commercial vehicles, by fiscal 2015.
Developed under Nissan's Safety Shield concept, Forward Emergency Braking is currently available in six models: the Skyline, X-Trail, Serena, Note, DAYZ, and the DAYZ ROOX.
Three of these models—the Skyline, X-Trail and the Note—have been specially recognized for their excellent safety features and were chosen by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and the National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victim's Aid under its Preventive Safety Performance Assessment program to receive the highest rating possible: the JNCAP ASV+ (Japan New Car Assessment Program, Advanced Safety Vehicle+).
Nissan is aiming to have Autonomous Drive technology phased into practical application by the year 2020.
Plans are to adopt the traffic-jam pilot, allowing safe autonomous drive on highways, by the end of 2016, multiple-lane autonomous drive technology, which autonomously conducts evasive actions and lane changing, by 2018, and intersection autonomous drive, allowing autonomous crossing of cross-roads and intersections without driver intervention, by 2020.
By incorporating Forward Emergency Braking into its models, Nissan is getting closer to offering fully autonomous vehicles, as the company has already started delivering many of the inherent safety technologies that will be featured in them to its customers, such as Forward Emergency Braking, Camera Recognition and Control Automation.
Other non-safety related features have also already made their way into many Nissan models.
These include the Around View Monitor, Intelligent Parking Assist, and the Smart Rearview Mirror.
