TRW Awarded First Commercial Truck Camera Contract to Support Automatic Emergency Braking Mandate in Europe

TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.

has won its first contract to supply its video camera sensor to a major European commercial truck manufacturer to support a range of sensing capabilities including lane departure warning and automatic emergency braking, both mandated by the European Union. TRW will begin to supply the camera technology in late 2012. The contract includes the integrated scalable camera and processing unit as well as supporting software. The system can enable functions including LDW, object recognition, forward collision warning, traffic sign recognition and headlight control. When combined with a radar sensor, other driver assist functions can be enabled such as AEB.