The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) has tested five cars against the latest testing protocols for the effectiveness of their respective assisted driving capabilities.
The agency’s assessment of assisted driving systems in vehicles is based on two key pillars – assistance competence, which is the balance between the level of assistance offered by the vehicle against the system’s aiding of the driver in staying engaged in the task of driving and the limitations of the system; and safety backup, which covers the measures taken in critical situations to avoid a collision.
First introduced in 2020, Euro NCAP’s assessment in 2024 has expanded its driver monitoring requirements and introduced further measures to improve speed assistance related to lane relevance, road features and local hazards, while safety backup scenarios have been expanded to include motorcyclist avoidance, pedestrians and cyclists.
The top two performers of the quintet tested were the BMW i5, which scored 76% for assistance competence and 90% for safety backup, while the W206 Mercedes-Benz C-Class scored 85% for assistance competence and 97% for safety backup.
Both the BMW i5 and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class provided ‘robust speed and lateral control’ to take much of the driving workload while keeping the driver ‘in the loop’ to retake control of the vehicle if required. The systems in the C-Class scored especially highly by moving the vehicle to the hard shoulder and performed a controlled stop if the driver is responsive.
Next were the Volkswagen ID.7 and the Volvo EC40, where both models scored a ‘good’ rating. The ID.7 scored 70% for assistance competence and 80% for safety backup, while the EC40 scored 66% for assistance competence and 78% for safety backup.
Rounding up the batch of five cars in this assessment was the BYD Atto 3, which received the ‘not recommended’ rating by Euro NCAP. Equipped with intelligent adaptive cruise control, its speed assistance system was found to be not interpreting road signs correctly, and scored 55% in assistance competence.
The BYD’s safety backup was found to have not met minimum safety standards by Euro NCAP, with a safety backup rating of 35% due to its overall poor performance of adaptive cruise control against stationary vehicles, and the lack of action taken in the event its driver is unresponsive.
In this scenario, the system was found to have effectively switched off steering support after a prolonged period of inactivity while maintaining speed control.
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as expected, BYD will not perform favorably.
So you believe in western news, so sad
Haha. When news reporting high BYD sales, China is great. When news reporting issues with BYD, it’s western news.
These people most likely believe the oil-rich area off Sarawak waters belongs to China.
It’s the facts. Cause more and more people don’t trust western news anyways unlike before
What a joke
Westerners are more credible than China. Look at how China claim the South China Sea as their territory already speaks a lot about how China people do things.
Have you all read history? You don’t seem to read much on history. Seems still in the backward mindset. And what make you said western news more credible than china? Actually reality not really
This shows that you have really low IQ
What a joke
South China Sea was claimed by China, all the time. Don’t even bother read the wikipedia. Smart ones will read history unlike some maybe you la, don’t even read. It’s the truth not jokes
Kudos to BYD
Mana Tesla???
of course its gonna be BYD that receives “Not Recommended” comment out of all the EU cars there. they just hate chinese cars innit
True, that’s bias
What a bias
BYD, is amongst the auto giants. that itself is an achievement whether they make it or not is a different thing. Audi, Porche, RR, JLR – none of them made it? How do you ignore BYD now? As much as I would like to look past Chinese cars like I used to do with Koreans. Irony!
Good. Just buy copycat car.
Ok, you don’t even appreciate anyways, great job western fans
Paul Tan editors, please make a video comparing all these L2 semi autonomous driving tech between car manufacturers, that’ll draw so many views, serious.