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Nissan Annual Report 2003
24
The Passion for Safety
Nissan’s policy toward safety is a quest for
Real World Safety. Nissan has long
worked to create safer vehicles, analyzing
actual accident data involving Nissan
vehicles in Japan. This data is the basis for
Nissan’s development strategies for safety
technologies in the Japanese market, with
the goal to cut the number of serious and
fatal injuries in Nissan vehicles to half the
level of 1995.
Nissan is expanding adoption of the
Active Head Restraint System, which is
effective in rear collisions, and the SRS
Curtain Airbag System, an effective
countermeasure in side collisions. The
Active Head Restraint System moves the
headrest forward, reducing rearward
rotation and motion of the head and neck.
Test results show a 45-percent reduction
of the twisting force on the neck and a
60-percent reduction of rotation of the
head to the rear, helping to significantly
reduce impact on the neck. This system
will be installed in many Nissan passenger
cars and RVs in fiscal 2004. The SRS
Curtain Airbag System is designed to help
protect passengers in both front and rear
seats from impact to the head in a side
collision, utilizing airbags that deploy from
the roof rails. Most Nissan passenger cars
and RVs will be equipped with this
innovative device by fiscal 2005.
Realizing New Technologies
Nissan’s safety research and development
activities, based on Real World Safety
data, have resulted in the introduction of
advanced safety technologies including
Intelligent Brake Assist, the Brake
Operated Pre-crash Seatbelt System and
the Adaptive Front-lighting System (AFS),
all of which are installed on the Cima.
Intelligent Brake Assist was developed
to help reduce occupant injuries in
rear-end collisions, which account for
roughly 30 percent of all accidents in
countries such as Japan and the US.
Intelligent Brake Assist uses a laser radar
sensor to measure the distance to the
vehicle in front of the car as well as the
relative speed between the vehicles. When
the sensor determines that a collision may
be unavoidable, it sounds a warning and
automatically applies the brakes.
The Brake-Operated Pre-crash
Seatbelt System, estimated to be effective
in as many as 25 percent of all fatalities
and serious injuries, was created using
Nissan-patented technology. If the sensor
Adaptive Front-lighting System (AFS)
CAREFULLY ANALYZING REAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IS THE FIRST STEP
TOWARD DEVELOPING SAFETY TECHNOLOGY. THE QUEST IS TO DEVELOP
SAFER VEHICLES THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF ACTUAL
ACCIDENT DATA INVOLVING NISSAN VEHICLES; THE GOAL IS TO REALIZE
A MAJOR REDUCTION OF FATALITIES AND SEVERE INJURIES.
A Commitment to Greater Safety
SAFETY