Mazda ASV-4 advanced safety vehicle
Anti-crash technology looms large on Mazda agendaLike a number of other car-makers, Mazda is advancing along the path of vehicle-to-vehicle and road-to-vehicle communications with its future safety systems.
As part of a plan introduced by Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation, the company will be running trials of an MPV-based "Advanced Safety Vehicle" in the Hiroshima area from March 11 this year.
The Mazda ASV-4 is able to detect oncoming vehicles at blind intersections, or on twisting roads with limited visibility, via vehicle-to-vehicle communications that alert the driver of a potentially dangerous situation.
The company has already tested systems designed to minimise rear-end collisions, as well as a Precrash safety system using radar to detect "oncoming obstacles" and even apply the brakes if necessary.
Mazda has also already started trials to validate a new "Intelligent Transport System" devised by a consortium of local government, academia and industry in the Hiroshima area that uses devices such as sensors alongside the road that communicate potentially dangerous situations to the driver.
The public-road ASV trials will be conducted in the same area as the ITS experiments to "evaluate the compatibility of the road-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems".
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