Development of an Emergency Stop Assist System 2019-01-1025

The social concern with traffic accidents caused by a driver’s medical emergency, has been growing for the last several years. In Japan, for purposes of promotion, the government issued the technical guideline of the system that deals with abovementioned accidents in June 2016. Based on the guideline, we manufactured "Driver Emergency Stop Assist system" which met above guideline in October 2017 in order to reduce such accidents. In this article, first, we would like to explain a purpose and basic design of this system, and then we explain the summary of the system, finally, we consider the effect of this system.