Road Safety
Improving road safety and meeting users’ demands is a challenge that automotive suppliers have taken up for decades. Today, many of the most common and useful innovations for vehicles com e from CLEPA member s , such as: safety belts, airbags, ESP etc.
The challenge is still there and CLEPA companies are continuing to innovate to better protect all road users from vehicle occupants to pedestrians.
Here is a non - exhaustive list of the fields where automotive suppliers make a vital contribution:
Passive Safety
- Improving restraint systems;
- Improving vehicle crash - worthiness and vehicle-to-vehicle compatibility;
- Improving pre-crash protection;
- Improving child protection.
Active Safety
- Improving vehicle braking and stability systems;
- Developing driver assistance systems;
- Developing collision avoidance and mitigation systems.
eSafety
- Integrating passive and active safety systems, communication with other vehicles and infrastructure to offer road users the best protection.
On the other hand, vehicle safety as well as environmental performance, are heavily regulated by governmental minimum requirements. CLEPA member companies are selling world-wide and a strategic action is to make sure that these requirements are harmonized as much as possible. The harmonization started 50 years ago with the emergence of the EU Internal Market and the 1958 Agreement of the United Nations. CLEPA has been and still is an active actor in these forums, bringing its expertise to the legislators. The aim is now global harmonization between Europe, Japan, North America and emerging countries in the automotive sector.
For more information, please contact techsec(at)clepa.be.