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KNCAP — Accident-Prevention (Active) Safety Assessment

Korea New Car Assessment Program — Accident-Prevention Safety Assessment (사고예방안전성)

Issuing bodyKNCAP
CommitteesKorea Transportation Safety Authority (KOTSA), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT)
First issued1999
Latest revision2026
Statusactive
Categorynational
Topicsadas_effectiveness, braking_response, lane_positioning, situational_awareness
Referencehttps://www.car.go.kr/sd/kncap/list.do

Scope

KNCAP, administered by MOLIT and operated by KOTSA, rates new cars across crash, pedestrian and accident-prevention safety. The accident-prevention domain assesses driver-facing ADAS: AEB (pedestrian/inter-urban/city), Lane Departure Warning (LDWS) and Lane Keeping Assist (LKAS), Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and Blind Spot Detection (BSD). FCW/LDW were added in 2013 and AEB/BSD/LKAS expanded from 2017; AEB weighting was later raised so a top overall grade is hard to attain without AEB as standard.

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