Every two years, the European New Car Assessment Programme updates and toughens its test protocols. This year new tests are introduced to address some longstanding needs in occupant protection, improve post-crash protection and promote the latest advanced driver assistance technology.
Image: Euro NCAP read more ... After the successful review meeting, all deliverables were approved by EC and we proudly present the first public available Deliverables on our Website. If you are interested in future crash configuartions or a methodology to structure combinations of aspects relevant for occupant protection evaluation in future passenger cars, click on the links below and enjoy reading.
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read more ... The small overlap crash test is one of the major challenges for the structural strength of vehicles. One of the main assessment criteria is the intrusion of tires, body and chassis parts into the passenger cabin. With the M=SLED Small Overlap, there is now an option to cost-effectively test critical chassis components that could penetrate the passenger compartment without destroying an entire car body.
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read more ... The Kistler Group has entered into a cooperation with Vehico, located in Braunschweig, Germany. As a result, an extensive package of sensor technologies and driving robots will now be available from a single source.
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read more ... AB Dynamics has launched a new global testing service division, driven by customer demand following the rapid expansion of the complexity and quantity of vehicle testing and assessment. The division will provide expertise, resource and equipment, enabling some customers to carry out testing that they wouldn t have been able to previously and others to meet strict deadlines.
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read more ... Vehicle safety design and active safety technologies, especially electronic stability control (ESC), have a significant impact on road traffic deaths, injuries, and the public health burden in the Latin American and the Caribbean region (LAC region) says a new study by the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, published in global health journal, The Lancet.
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read more ... As a matter of fact, dogs are regarded as cargo in the sense of the German road traffic regulations and must be secured during the journey. The market offers various systems for this purpose and the Allianz Center for Technology AZT has tested samples for their practical suitability and crash safety using dog dummies. In most cases, the different securing systems are more uncomfortable for the dog owner in terms of handling than for the dog itself.
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read more ... In 2020, Millbrook celebrates 50 years since its Bedfordshire Proving Ground opened. The company marks this golden anniversary by speaking to its alumni and launching a brand new website, despite postponing a full scale celebration.
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read more ... That's an odd sentence, but the truth of the matter is that for the crash labs, a large pool is important. In fact, it's crucial. With more and more electric vehicles, there come more and more electric vehicle crash tests. We need to plan for every eventuality.
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read more ... Foretellix announced a new technology solution with VIRES part of Hexagon - that improves the quality of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle testing through intelligent data-driven automation.
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read more ... A wet road and a sudden evasive maneuver: there was a time when such a situation would frequently have ended in a ditch or against a crash barrier, and not rarely with fatalities or severe injuries. Almost 25 years ago to the day, a remedy was finally provided in the shape of a pioneering invention the ESP® electronic stability program that Bosch and Daimler-Benz first launched in S-class vehicles in 1995.
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read more ... The Japanese National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims Aid (NASVA) release new JNCAP test results for the fiscal year 2019 (FY2019) (April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020). Detailed results as well as description of tests are available in Japanese in the 2020 Guidebooks.
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