The active safety features are predominantly the features that work to prevent or lower the risk of a collision occurring. They are so named because they are always active, and working to try and prevent an accident. Whereas passive Safety Features are systems that are passive up until called into action. They only become active during the accident and aim to help minimize the damage from the collision

Generally, active safety systems can keep working and resetting themselves over and over again, whereas once the passive safety features have deployed, they are no longer functioning and would need to be replaced.

To understand and develop active safety systems you need to consider, the available sensors and technological systems that can be fitted to a vehicle in order to allow it to actively avoid, or minimize the risk of a collision occurring.

These active safety features are often referred to as ADAS – Advanced Driver Assistance Systems.

Advanced Simtech can provide your organization with support and services to help either understand the influence of an existing active safety feature or to develop a new capability.

We have been working with ADAS and active safety systems for over 8 years, providing support and assistance to our customers, helping them to develop and validate their products.

Our unique position within this sector allows us to assist with both Virtual testing for development as well as transferring real-world test data back into the virtual world to fine-tune and improve the performance of your chosen system.

2) Driver Warning – The ability to alert the driver of any hazards (Head up display, driver drowsiness, parking sensors)

3) Collision Avoidance – by understanding its position relative to others cars and road users it can avoid any potential collisions. (, Braking Assist, Front and surround sensors such as radars and lidars)

4) Collision Mitigation – If the crash is going to happen, it can help to minimise the energy or level of impact.( automatic emergency braking, steering away, electic seatbelt retractors pull in the webbing to restrain occupants)

5) Injury Mitigation – standard passive safety features operate in the event of a collision (airbags, pretensioners, seatbelts as the vehicles crash structure is loaded and crumples under impact)

6) Post Crash – information automatically transmitted to the emergency services or the interior occupants. (providing the vehicles location and number of occupants, along with crash severity and impact direction. Fire suppression systems and high voltage circuit breakers to disconnect the battery in an electric vehicle).