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- ANCAP Leading International Cooperation Project
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Mitsubishi i-MiEV
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Australia's leading independent vehicle safety advocate, the
Australasian New Car Assessment Program, is actively encouraging
international efforts to improve information and data sharing for
consumer crash tests. ANCAP, together with the Japanese NCAP
program, arranged a meeting of international NCAP organisations in
Japan last week that included a crash test of Mitsubishi's electric
vehicle, the i-MiEV. Officials from Euro NCAP, Korean NCAP, Japan NCAP,
the United States and Malaysia attended the meetings and crash test. The
opportunity was also taken to host an open seminar for car
manufacturers, vehicle testing bodies and government officials on the
developments and benefits of consumer crash testing around the world. ANCAP
Chair, Lauchlan McIntosh, said the meeting discussed new crash testing
methods, reducing the harm to vulnerable road users, roof strength and
the need for greater rewards for new safety developments. "This
is a great opportunity for the new car assessment programs from many
different countries to share crash test data and gain a broader
coverage of safety ratings, in the interests of new car buyers, and to
further research into vehicle safety,” Mr McIntosh said. "The
next steps will be to increase the amount of information and data
sharing, to introduce more specific mechanisms for sharing research and
test programs, and to ensure that consumers around the world have
access to better comparative data on safer vehicles. "Unfortunately,
too many people die and are injured unnecessarily in road crashes – we
can all make a difference if we work together." ANCAP has
recently released its Roadmap – outlining changes to crash test
protocols and benchmarks for star ratings over the next five years –
and a new variant policy allowing a broader coverage of star ratings to
variants across a model range. This RoadMap will encourage
further improvements to crash protection for vehicle occupant and
vulnerable road users. <Back
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