{"id":10787,"date":"2020-05-29T10:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=10787"},"modified":"2020-06-19T23:53:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:53:55","slug":"new-protocols-for-euro-ncap-crash-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/automotive-design\/new-protocols-for-euro-ncap-crash-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Protocols for Euro NCAP Crash Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moving Barrier in new Euro NCAP tests.<\/p><\/div>\n

‘Euro NCAP’; so what do all these letters mean?\u00a0 Euro, obviously, means \u2018European\u2019, and NCAP means \u2018New Car Assessment Programme\u2019.\u00a0 So what this team at Euro NCAP does is test out new cars\u00a0by putting put them through a stringent crash test to see how they perform.\u00a0 New cars need to meet a set of standards in order to get marked as having a certain level of crash safety.\u00a0 This is really handy for the likes of you and me because it provides new car, and second-hand car, buyers a good informative test standard whereby we can satisfy ourselves that a car we\u2019re about to buy meets levels of crash-test safety that we’re happy with.<\/p>\n

This crash test safety rating, given by authorities like Euro NCAP and ANCAP (but not restricted to), stands up well in the real world, where cars involved in a crash keep the occupants safe according to the rating given in tests.\u00a0 When a car is involved in a severe crash, the higher the car\u2019s safety rating\u00a0(approved through testing) is seen to offer a better chance of survival for its occupants.\u00a0 The opposite is also true, where the lower the safety rating the higher the chance of severe injury to the car\u2019s occupants.<\/p>\n

Every two years,\u00a0Euro NCAP\u00a0updates and toughens its test protocols.\u00a0 Recently, the crash testing bar at Euro NCAP headquarters has been raised for any new cars that get tested.\u00a0 This is always a good thing because it drives new car manufacturers to improve their cars safety capability.\u00a0 This year sees Euro NCAP\u00a0 addressing some\u00a0issues\u00a0in occupant protection, providing an improved post-crash protection test and delivering a push for the new cars to have the latest advanced driver assistance technology.<\/p>\n

Leading the new protocols is one major change in the offset crash test; and that is the introduction of a new moving barrier to moving car frontal crash test.\u00a0 This replaces the current moderate offset-deformable barrier test, which has been used by Euro NCAP for the last twenty three years. The barrier will now move at around 50 km\/h toward the car to better replicate what happens in the real world.\u00a0 Even the thought of it suggests that manufacturers will have to strengthen their car\u2019s safety cell to score highly!<\/p>\n

This new crash test will evaluate the protection of the car\u2019s occupants in the crash, as well as assessing how the cars\u2019 front-end structures contribute, or not, to occupant injury in the collision. The new regulations also include the world\u2019s most advanced mid-sized male crash test dummy called \u201cTHOR\u201d.\u00a0 Thor will provide lots of extra information on how well \u2018he\u2019 has been protected during the new crash testing regime.<\/p>\n

Side impacts are never pretty, and they account for the second highest frequency of death or serious injuries. New adjustments to the near-side barrier test\u2019s speed and mass has resulted in an increase in the severity of the test.\u00a0Strengthening protection down the sides of new cars will have to be on the agenda if manufacturers want to score well in this side impact test.<\/p>\n

Also, Euro NCAP will begin evaluating\u00a0far-side impact protection that focuses on driver protection and the potential interaction between the driver and front-seat passenger during the collision. New protection offered by new-to-market countermeasures such as centre airbags between driver and passenger will be adequately scrutinised.<\/p>\n

New driver-assist technologies will be looked at, and to score highly new cars will need to use competent accident emergency braking technology in the cars to protect vulnerable road users.\u00a0 These would include road users behind the car in a reversing-back-over situation, as well as road users in the path of the car turning at a crossing. Also, evaluations on Driver Status Monitoring systems, designed to detect driver fatigue and distraction, will be part of the Safety Assist assessment run by Euro NCAP.<\/p>\n

Manufacturers will be rewarded when any rescue information is accurate after a crash which has happened in the real world becomes easily available for scrutiny. Euro NCAP also checks ease of rescue after an accident has occurred, electric door handles, softness of materials in the cabin etc. and will endorse any technology that calls for help in an emergency situation.<\/p>\n

These are some of the major changes we\u2019ll see employed by Euro NCAP\u2019s new 2020 protocols. Our local ANCAP\u00a0testing will be sure to follow similar protocols so as to give the best information for us lot – the car buyers. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/about.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Euro NCAP’; so what do all these letters mean?\u00a0 Euro, obviously, means \u2018European\u2019, and NCAP means \u2018New Car Assessment Programme\u2019.\u00a0 So what this team at Euro NCAP does is test out new cars\u00a0by putting put them through a stringent crash test to see how they perform.\u00a0 New cars need to meet a set of standards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10851,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions\/10851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}