Subaru has approved Hunter Engineering’s Ultimate ADAS for its U.S. dealer and collision network, according to a Hunter Engineering press release. 

Hunter Engineering worked directly with Subaru of America, Subaru of Japan, and Lyasaka Ltd of Japan (Hunter’s Market Partner in Japan) for the past year to gain approval of Ultimate ADAS for Subaru workshops, according to Kale Silver, Hunter Engineering senior director of systems product management. 

“Testing occurred in Japan to verify Ultimate ADAS met Subaru’s requirements,” Silver said. “We really enjoyed partnering with Subaru of America and Subaru Japan to approve leading technology for an ADAS leader like Subaru.” 

Subaru is the fifth OEM to approve the alignment and static calibration system. Other OEMs include Honda, Acura, Nissan, and Infiniti.

Additional approvals are planned for this year, a release says. 

“It’s been exciting to partner with Subaru of America and Subaru Japan to approve Ultimate ADAS for Subaru dealers,” Silver said in the release. “Subaru has been a leader in the ADAS market for many years, and Ultimate ADAS gives their dealer and collision network access to the industry-leading ADAS calibration technology to service and document vehicles more efficiently.”

Hunter promotes Ultimate ADAS as the company’s system for eliminating error-prone manual layouts common to static ADAS calibrations. It combines standard-setting alignment technology with an efficient and easy-to-use guided target placement system for around-the-vehicle coverage. 

“Gimbal-mounted lasers are the key component, replacing the inexact guesswork of strings, plumb bobs, and tape measures to cut setup time by 70% for some procedures,” the release says. “The laser gimbals and onscreen guidance dramatically increase target placement precision by automatically compensating for non-level floors, monitoring for placement errors, and confirming accuracy with laser measurements each step of the way.” 

Ultimate ADAS also provides documentation, confirming placements, procedures, and before-and-after measurements that are accessed via HunterNet 2, the company’s customer portal.

According to the release, Ultimate ADAS includes static calibration coverage for 19 OEMs and 7,000 static ADAS procedures, accounting for more than 90% of vehicles in operation. 

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Earlier this year, Hunter Engineering announced a partnership with Car ADAS Solutions. 

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