Nissan releases latest safety innovations
YOKOHAMA —
Nissan Motor Co has released its latest safety technologies to help reduce fatal and serious injuries caused by accidents involving vehicles, based on the company’s “Safety Shield” concept.
By improving signal processing technology of vehicle-equipped cameras which helps enable the detection of people, other vehicles, road and obstacles around the vehicle, the Acceleration Suppression for Pedal Misapplication and Multi-Sensing System with Rear Camera help drivers to take avoidance behavior before an accident might occur.
In addition, the Predictive Forward Collision Warning System, which uses millimeter-wave radar to detect the deceleration of the second vehicle in front, alerts the driver in advance of a sudden drop in speed of the vehicle two cars ahead.
1. Acceleration Suppression for Pedal Misapplication
In car parks or other confined areas, in order to help mitigate collisions with obstacles such as walls due to the driver’s misapplication of the accelerator instead of the brake or pressing on the accelerator too hard, Nissan has developed a function to recognize whether the vehicle is on a road or in a car park by using image signal data acquired by the Around View Monitor’s four unit cameras.
When the driver presses the accelerator pedal to the floor, this function allows the vehicle to accelerate if it is on a road, and does not in a parking space.
This system is also designed to detect obstacles using sonar, and automatically applies the brake to help avoid or mitigate collisions when the vehicle is in danger of touching or colliding with nearby obstacles.
Using features of Around View Monitor and the sonar system, this technology helps reduce the risk of accidents occurring through misapplication of the accelerator and brake brought about by driver operational mistakes. Nissan aims to commercialize this technology within two years.
2. Multi-Sensing System with Rear Camera
Using the Around View Monitor image processing technology, Nissan developed Multi-Sensing System with Rear Camera, which detects people, other vehicles and road conditions in the rear and sides of the vehicle, to alert drivers of possible collision risks. This system has the following three functions and will be installed in new models from 2012, followed by global distribution.
If the driver operates the turn signal while not being aware of other vehicles traveling in the driver’s blind spot, a buzzer is sounded simultaneously with an indication lamp flashing on the front pillar to warn the driver of the vehicle.
The rear camera works to detect the white lines on the road. If the driver does not use the turn signal and starts to drift from their current lane unintentionally, a buzzer is sounded and a signal on the display warns the driver that the car is drifting into another lane.
When the vehicle is placed in reverse, the rear camera’s image processing function works to detect moving objects or people, such as pedestrians, around the vehicle. On detection of a moving object, the driver is warned with a buzzer and display signals.
Nissan plans to apply this function to Around View Monitor in the Elgrand, where minor changes are planned for this November.
3. Predictive Forward Collision Warning System
To help prevent pileup accidents resulting from the deceleration of vehicles in front and out of view, a sensor installed in the front of the vehicle analyzes the relative velocity and the vehicular gap existing between the two vehicles in front. When the system determines the need to decelerate, it warns the driver in advance with a buzzer, signal on display, and also by tightening the seat belt.
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papasmurfinjapan
All cool technologies but as long as they are only available on high-end model cars that are priced out of the range of most families, what is the point?
If it is a real "safety" feature that saves lives, I wish they would make it standard across the range.
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wanderlust
More electronic gadgets leads to dumbing down of the steering wheel attendants, aka drivers, as they get to rely more and more on them. At some point there will be a situation that needs human input.
The white line detector in item 2 would be useless on many of the smaller, country roads in Japan, where although there is a line in the middle of the road, you have to drive in the middle of the road to avoid erosion, obstacles, sings, lamp posts, electricity poles, etc..
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Patric Spohn
If you need all this, in particular Acceleration Suppression for Pedal Misapplication, to drive safe, then it's time to hand in your licence.
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Christina O'Neill
Avoiding a possible collision is instantanious with a responsible alert driver, to be aware of the unexpected is always foremost. Problem is dangerous overtaking,speeding, and intoxicated drivers.Supermarket carparks can be a nightmare with people often with children inobvious either by choice or stupidity to drivers attempting to reverse from a parking area. The vehicle you drive may be installed with every conceivable safety device possible, but if the driver is incompetant it is just a waste of technology
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The Munya Times
I am not against advanced computerized systems on board and I feel it's regrettable we have to drive our cars instead of an autopilot but what Nissan is so proud of, is plain stupid and just another kind of theft.
They team up with electronic makers to flood our cars with useless gadgets to make us pay more and the top of all that these stuffs are just confusing and will steal focus from driving.
What I would accept for my money:
A/ Autopilot to drive my car, which saves me from prison when mad/drunk walkers and cyclists are causing inevitable accidents. Let them imprison my computer. Also, it would change pedestrians' and cyclists' manner as they expect me to stop even when it's impossible supposing I would do it anyway if I don’t want to go to jail. They wouldn't do that knowing the robot-pilot is not afraid of the police.
B/ Massive, heavy-duty shock absorber physical body using high quality steel, not these soft, pressed metal sheets. That won't happen as it would considerably extend the life cycle of the cars and reduce need for costly service maintenance, something they try to avoid.
C/ Built in black box recording speed to avoid false ticketing from cops, recording all engine, transmission, and all other working parameters for possible troubleshooting and servicing.
D/ Built in traffic camera behind the front windshield, recording all traffic conditions and serve evidences in case of accidents, e.g. mad cyclist jump in front of my car within braking distance while busy with their mobile.
E/ Extended warranty even for rust. If I not mistaken some other makers e.g. Skoda gives 12 years of extended warranty for rust.
F/ I don't know if I can hope any fair quality from Nissan with their crippled moral after all what they do to http://nissan.com/ and I definitely don't feel any irresistible urge to buy their car when they are not only milking me with stupid useless gadgets but still want me to finance their war with Nissan Computer (Uzi Nissan) who registered his name and company well before Nissan cars were running on the roads.
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Motaz Abumathkour
Actually , these tiny sheets are called "the crumple zones" they do that so the shock would be on the front of the car instead of the front of your face, and if they put heavy-duty steel it wouldn't give any good effect as it doesn't crumble on shock therefore doesn't absorb the shock
Other than that I was amazed how accurate your comment was
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The Munya Times
Motaz AbumathkourOct. 14, 2011 - 03:06PM JST
Yes I know, it's a part of it I know what you mean, it's correct, thank for mentioning.
There was something else on my mind , too bad I couldn't make it clear.
I am sorry I can't elaborate all the technical details in a post so precisely on what I really mean, general structure, absorber design and the raw materials they use, the thickness of the pressed sheet etc. I'm thinking of something like the front absorber construction of Aston Martin and if I not mistaken Nissan Fuga or Teana tried something like that.
I am very interested in these details unfortunately I dare not venture to discuss it in written posts, even my technical English would be poor for that but would be much willing to discuss it in life while testing or disassembling a car.
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BuzzB
My 2004 Elgrand has that number 3 item. I can say it works very well. Also the VDC and adaptive cruise control are much to my liking.
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