Most of Nissan‘s 2018 model year vehicles sold in the United States will have automated emergency braking as a standard feature, the automaker announced Thursday. It said about a million of the company’s cars and trucks will have the advanced safety technology, up from its current count of about 450,000 vehicles for 2017. Based on Nissan’s 2016 U.S. sales of 1,564,423 units, it means about two-thirds of Nissan’s U.S.-market vehicles will have the feature.
The system uses radar and sensors to detect whether a frontal crash is imminent, and applies the vehicle’s brakes automatically if the driver fails to do so. For the 2018 model year, it will be standard on Nissan’s Altima, Leaf, Maxima, Murano, Pathfinder, Rogue/Rogue Sport, and Sentra. Manual-transmission and NISMO models are excluded, as are select Armada models.
In March 2016, 20 automakers made a commitment with federal regulators to make automated emergency braking a standard feature on U.S. vehicles by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s 2022 reporting year, which begins on Sept. 1, 2022. The 20 automakers collectively represent more than 99 percent of the U.S. market.
NHTSA said the voluntary agreement should make the feature standard about three years faster than a formal regulatory process would have. During that three-year period, the commitment will have prevented an estimated 28,000 crashes and 12,000 injuries, according to the agency. But some consumer advocates have said the agreement is not strong enough and filed a lawsuit in November to try to spur a formal rulemaking process.
Volvo offers automated emergency braking as a standard feature on its full lineup, and Toyota has vowed to put it in almost every Toyota and Lexus model sold in 2017.
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