Keeps your vehicle at a steady speed and a safe distance from the vehicle ahead. It automatically slows down or speeds up to match traffic flow.
A range of technologies that support the driver by providing information, warnings, and automatic steering or braking interventions to help avoid or mitigate collisions.
Helps you avoid or lessen an impact by automatically braking if it detects something in your path. It uses sensors and cameras to spot danger and can act even if you don’t have time to.
A system that enhances driver awareness by replacing optical mirrors with cameras and digital display technology to provide indirect vision.
A distinct rating awarded to vehicles that achieve at least 50% of the available points in safety assessments particularly relevant to urban environments. These assessments include: Automated Emergency Braking (AEB) for vulnerable road users, Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) when turning to at a junction across the path of a cyclist, direct vision, camera monitor systems.
Freight operations supporting the construction industry and related heavy industries. These may involve off-road work and specialized functions, such as tipping or concrete mixing. Examples include transporting building materials to construction sites, waste to landfill, stone from quarries to processing facilities, or timber from forests to sawmills.
The area visible from the driver’s eye position through the vehicle’s windows. This excludes the aid of indirect vision devices such as mirrors or camera monitor systems.
Freight operations covering short to medium distances, often delivering goods to final destinations in urban or rural areas. These typically involve smaller consignment sizes or restricted access.
A moment of inattention can be enough for your vehicle to stray from its lane. Vehicles fitted with Lane Keep Assist (LKA) will actively brake or steer the vehicle to ensure it stays in its lane. Emergency Lane Keeping (ELK) intervenes more aggressively in those critical situations.
Electronic Stability Control (ESC), also called Electronic Stability Program (ESP), helps prevent HGVs from both skidding and rollover by automatically braking individual wheels when it detects either a loss of directional control or that wheels on the inside of a curve are beginning to lift. ESC has been mandatory on all new trucks and trailers sold in Europe from 2014.
The area from the driver’s eye position that is obstructed by the vehicle’s structure and visible only through indirect vision aids, such as mirrors or camera monitoring systems.
IACC keeps your vehicle at a steady speed while adjusting automatically to local speed limits and traffic conditions.
A moment of inattention can be enough for your vehicle to stray from its lane. Vehicles fitted with Lane Keep Assist (LKA) will actively brake or steer the vehicle to ensure it stays in its lane. Emergency Lane Keeping (ELK) intervenes more aggressively in those critical situations.
Freight operations covering long distances typically on inter-urban roads, involving large quantities of goods. These often include transport between ports or factories and national distribution centres, or from national distribution centres to regional distribution centres.
Traditional glass mirrors that reflect light to provide indirect vision and enhance driver awareness.
Documents detailing how Euro NCAP tests are performed and assessed. Used by crash test facilities and inspectors, they are regularly updated and available in the Protocol section of the Euro NCAP website.
Rear underrun is a potentially fatal type of collision where the car slides beneath the truck structure, when a driver or a vehicle fails to detect the rear of the trailer under various conditions. It is then the role of the trailer's Rear Underrun Protection System (RUPS) to mitigate the collision.
A document provided by vehicle manufacturers showing key vehicle information for emergency services – such as airbag, battery and high-voltage cable locations, and safe cut points. Since 2020, Euro NCAP rewards manufacturers that supply ISO-compliant rescue sheets. Rescue sheets are readily accessible through Euro NCAP’s Euro Rescue App.
A system that uses audible and visual alerts to remind occupants to fasten their seat belts.
Systems that help drivers stay within legal speed limits by displaying the local speed limit, and warning when limits are exceeded, or automatically controlling speed. Euro NCAP evaluates these in the Safety Assist category.
Euro NCAP assessments are conducted only at approved laboratories, which perform crash and track testing. The full list is in What is Euro NCAP.
Vehicles built on goods vehicle chassis but designed primarily for specialized functions rather than general goods delivery. Examples include refuse collectors, gully cleaners, gritting vehicles, and fire tenders.
Non-motorised or less-protected road users, including pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and people with reduced mobility. Euro NCAP focuses mainly on pedestrian and cyclist protection.
