Highlights:
* Alphard/Vellfire awarded FY2019 Grand Prix Award in preventive safety performance for the second consecutive year
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* Alphard/Vellfire ASV*2+++ (the highest rank) in preventive safety performance
* RAV4 ASV*2+++ in preventive safety performance, five stars (the highest rank) in collision safety performance
* Raize five stars in collision safety performance
* Alphard/Vellfire received the Grand Prix Award in preventive safety performance by gaining the highest score in the assessment for two years in a row following last year.
JNCAP revises its testing methods and assessment standards meticulously, every year, taking into account actual traffic accidents that have occurred in
As for the preventive safety performance evaluation, JNCAP added the autonomous emergency braking system that detects pedestrians under streetlamps at night in the list of items for assessment in FY2018, in consideration of the fact that, in
JNCAP has also revised its collision safety performance evaluation criteria that better reflects the conditions of an aging population, and adopted new crash test dummies that more accurately represent the human body. Against this backdrop, RAV4 and Raize, equipped with the latest collision safety body and occupant restraint system, received five stars, the top ranking in the collision safety performance evaluation.
Though traffic accident fatalities and casualties have been decreasing year by year, tragic accidents continue to occur. Under the wish for the ultimate goal of zero traffic fatalities,
With the development of safer cars using a three-pillar approach,
*1 Japan New Car Assessment Program: vehicle safety information provided by theJapanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), and theNational Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims' Aid since fiscal year 1995. The information comprises results of safety evaluations for domestically available vehicles based on tests including preventive safety performance tests, collision safety performance tests, and pedestrian protection performance tests.
*2 ASV Advanced Safety Vehicle
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