TOKYO: The Toyota Alphard/Vellfire, RAV4, and Raize have received the highest rank awards in the 2019 safety performance assessment by JNCAP (Japan New Car Assessment Program).
The Alphard/Vellfire and RAV4 received the highest rank in preventive safety performance.
Both the RAV4 and Raize also received five stars (the highest rank) in collision safety performance.
JNCAP revises its testing methods and assessment standards meticulously, every year, taking into account actual traffic accidents that have occurred in Japan and the necessity of establishing countermeasures.
As for the preventive safety performance evaluation, JNCAP added the autonomous emergency braking system that detects pedestrians under streetlamps at night in the list of items for assessment in 2018, in consideration of the fact that, in Japan, pedestrian fatalities from road accidents frequently occur at night.
Also in its 2019 assessment, the autonomous emergency braking system for pedestrians at night without lighting was added in the list of evaluation items.
The Alphard/Vellfire and RAV4 equipped with the latest Toyota Safety Sense (a pre-collision safety system that detects pedestrians at night) received the highest rank in JNCAP's assessment of preventive safety performance.
JNCAP has also revised its collision safety performance evaluation criteria that better reflects the conditions of an aging population, and adopted new crash test dummies that more accurately represent the human body.
Against this backdrop, RAV4 and Raize, equipped with the latest collision safety body and occupant restraint system, received five stars, the top ranking in the collision safety performance evaluation.
