Reinforcing the Drive Assist (DA) evaluation system

Fulfilling Our Responsibility for Safety

In 2005, Alpine defined our goals for 2015 in our new corporate vision, so as to better position ourselves amid the motorized society of the future in line with our new AVNCD concept, which adds D (Drive Assist) to AV (Audio and Visual) and NC (Navigation and Communication).
"Drive Assist" is a system that supports safe and comfortable driving (checking behind, controlling the distance between cars, etc.) by combining information on the surroundings of a car acquired from social infrastructure and vehicle cameras/radar systems with other information gained by conventional equipment.
What is comfort in driving? Our answer to this question is AVNCD. Tapping into our wealth of knowhow and technologies, we seek to add new values to automobile equipment in the areas of AVNCD.
To this end, Alpine is reinforcing the AVNCD development and assessment structure.
In 1992, we established an Evaluation Center where we are conducting a series of experiments designed to enhance product quality for better comfort for customers: in the Lighting Chamber, sun conditions from many different places of the world are reproduced to verify visibility, and in the Acoustic Laboratory, the effects of road noise and engine noise are evaluated. In October 2007, the Drive Assist Evaluation Center was established with the aim of reproducing for assessment the diverse conditions experienced by drivers, in order to push forward the development of Drive Assist systems.
It is our firm belief that only products that are evaluated in the most realistic use environments can contribute to a safe and comfortable motorized society for the future.