New Euro NCAP system tough on safety
6 Nov, 2008
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In the ongoing pursuit of total safety for passengers and pedestrians alike, Euro NCAP has today raised the benchmark for its ratings system by announcing changes to its assessment criteria.
From 2009, new vehicles will undergo a much tougher and more comprehensive assessment, also revealing that a five star award would no longer be possible without electronic stability control as standard - a requirement pioneered by the local ANCAP crash safety assessment system in Januray 2008.
Euro NCAP’s new scheme will introduce a new overall 5-star vehicle safety rating replacing the current star ratings in use since 1997, aimed at providing the simplest and clearest advice to the consumer about the overall safety performance of their vehicle.
“Euro NCAP needs to continually evolve with innovation and ensure that consumers can be confident that the rating remains updated and a true reflection of the safety performance of their vehicles.” Dr Michiel Van Ratingen, Secretary-General of Euro NCAP said.
An overall rating will now be accumulated from performance across four areas of assessment: Adult Occupant, Child Occupant, Pedestrian Protection and a new area, Safety Assist.
The new Safety Assist criteria will allow Euro NCAP to consider driver assistance systems and active safety technologies, which play an increasingly important role in accident avoidance and injury mitigation.
Consumers interested in a particular area of assessment such as adult or child protection will still be able to compare these individual scores by visiting Euro NCAP’s website.
The organisation has also begun testings seats of vehicles crash tested in 2008 to gauge their performance in rear impact and whiplash protection, which will automatically be included as part of Euro NCAP’s first area of assessment Adult Occupant Protection.
The first results for vehicles tested under the new rating system will be released in February 2009.
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November 6th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
this is good news
im tired of every single car having 5 stars
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November 6th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Agreed Pg. Apart from anything, people still die in 5 star cars so the bar does really need to be raised. I wonder how the Barina would do here?
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November 6th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
That great on the ESP. But not all ESP’s are created equal. Some are downright dangerous.
Camry camAurion & Kluger might struggle under that scenario.
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November 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Should be immediatly raised to 7 star, and impact speed increased to 70kmh.
Then we will get a *real-world* rating.
Now all auto companies are doing is designing cars to make 5 stars, not real world is it?
Cheers
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