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February 6, 2015, at 6 pm 58 Clifford Atiyeh Photography by GlobalNCAP YouTube.
Here's an advance that we can all agree will save thousands of lives each year first crash standards in India for new vehicles.
The government of the second most populous country in the world concluded that her 1 2 billion people deserve airbags and other safety critical features we here in the United States have assumed that the standard equipment in the past two decades, the Times of India reports that the Department of Indian road transportation will mandate crash tests on all models redesigned from October 2017 and for each new vehicle sold in October 2019 before and modeled lateral crash tests after other new car assessment programs NCAP, as in China, will be implemented once the complete government testing facilities According to the times of India did not provide safety equipment, but only require minimum standards This performance is similar to certain situations in the United States where, for example, side curtain airbags are not techni cally necessary, but must be installed in order to pass the test A star system will also be adopted.
The absence of vehicle standards in India and dozens of other developing countries has enabled major automakers profit from selling cheap cars, stripped-down more often than older generations sold in Europe, Japan and the United States for growing middle class hungry for personal transport and despite the eccentrically costs, it may be to look brand new Volkswagen Microbus and other rides vintage rolling current assembly lines, in reality, they re several magnitudes less secure than fully modern cars, but this problem is not only importing models who renounce airbags and additional crash structure, it also includes vehicles such as clean India Tata Nano and Datsun Nissan GB built that earned him no star NCAP global tests that were designed in the modern era to meet u No coup price point will look at a 2014 model, it should be noted, not rustling in his essay in 1994 and try to disagree that ignores security to a level almost vulgar.
Then there are those vehicles tested by Global NCAP in the first series of independent crash tests of vehicles Indian-spec The results were published last week.
World NCAP, which is likely to inform own regulations in India, the basic models tested the Suzuki-Maruti Alto 800, the Tata Nano, Ford Figo, Hyundai i10, and a version of the Volkswagen Polo now for sale in India; together, they represent 20 percent of all sales of Indian No cars were equipped with airbags, although they probably wouldn t have relied The protection offered by these vehicles was so poor, the group said it n ' there would be no way to prevent serious injuries in a crash test standard all received zero stars.
According to the World Health Organization, nearly 134,000 people died in car accidents in India in 2010. Of these, 32 percent died riding on motorcycles, tuk-tuks, and other vehicles two and three wheels that won t fall under the new requirements another 21 percent died in buses and heavy trucks But wHO predicts that, assuming that the regulations remain pat worldwide, accidents traffic is currently about 1 24 million each year become the fifth leading cause of death worldwide in 2030, corresponding to HIV AIDS only 7 percent of the world population, according to the WHO study published in 2013, conducted in countries where laws and enforcement of seat belts, drink driving, speed, helmets and seats sufficient children.
Does anyone really deserves to die or become seriously injured in what could be a minor accident in a regulated more severely countries is an issue all automakers or not they're constrained by regulations should ask before ship quality cars less to developing countries.
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