Tata Nano, other Indian cars to fail crash tests
Over the past two years, Global NCAP New Car Assessment Program has become a dreaded word for each car manufacturer in the country.
Global NCAP, an independent British organization that conducts crash safety tests on cars around the world, first came to Limelight in India on the eve of the motor show in Delhi every two years in January 2014 five car - Tata Nano, Maruti Alto 800, Hyundai i10, Ford Figo and Volkswagen Polo in the miserably fared crash test and scored a zero.
Ten months later, disaster struck again this time Datsun Go and Maruti Swift could not Muster Passing Marks After being embarrassed twice, one would have thought that the industry would be sober and sub-standard stop making cars India You can not have been more wrong.
On April 17, Global NCAP published the results of their latest results of crash tests where five cars - Hyundai Eon, Mahindra Scorpio, Maruti Eeco Renault kwid and Maruti celerio - were sent to the gallows all scored zero and matched the poor performance of their counterparts last companies can bicker and are called by other names in other things, but in their inability to learn from past mistakes, they are all the same.
It is something that is well known now, but there is no harm in repeating the Indian roads are the most dangerous in the world and 1,40,000 people die due to road accidents every year Yet road safety measures in general, and for vehicles, in particular, have lagged behind global standards.
The government has developed a plan to crash tests in India which will require all new launches to be equipped with two airbags October 2017, while new car existing brands should adhere to it of October 2019 but it is without doubt not soon enough and manufacturers, with some exceptions, are leaving to the end.
The same companies blame the lobbies of government and industry when rival reflex decision is made to fight against pollution and provide better quality fuel system, but when a sufficient buffer is given to improve car safety, they take their own sweet time.
There is absolutely no doubt about this, even if there is a campaign against whsiper Some Japanese and Indian automakers not need to name them, you know that say World NCAP is an almost before the car lobby EU to push sales of airbags and ABS anti-lock braking system may or may not be true in this, but it does not take anything to the efficiency of the two functions.
In the three global crash test NCAP, all selected cars were basic variants, which in India means no airbags or ABS all scored zero according to a study by Robert Bosch accident research project in 2014, and if the ABS airbags are imposed for cars, losses are estimated to drop by 35 percent if they were offered on motorcycles and scooters, the impact on the respective death would also be similar, but that is an entirely different story.
Most manufacturers including Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor, Tata, Mahindra and Honda have been reluctant to equip their cars with these features costs and citing a lack of consumer awareness of the importance of these features.
In Japan, the airbags were made standard on all cars in 2004, the accident rate was still very high, said RC Bhargava, chairman, Maruti Suzuki India in December 2014, the government decided to make the airbags compulsory ABS, but we will respect it would make them more expensive cars My concern is for the entry-level car, it could have a significant impact We want two wheeler owners graduates to cars as automatically is a step on security If you expensive cars, so that will not happen.
M. Bhargava is a very eloquent man who puts forward his views forcefully with much conviction, but it is not an argument worthy Just one look at the price of two airbags ten years ago and now, and this proves that the industry has deliberately overpriced for their own benefit.
In 2005, a high-range variant would cost you Rs 1 lakh with more airbags Today, this difference is down to less than Rs 25,000 next year, where each car had an airbag, economies of scale Would cut down the more the price cost has never had anything to do with why companies do not offer security features.
safer cars top speed more sinister hell not.
This is another stupid argument being put forward companies report accidents headlines featuring a Mercedes, Audi or BMW mean that safer cars encourage reckless behavior and led to various risks on the road because if your car is dangerous, you drive safely and more responsibly.
No one has done a study on this side of human psychology and I am not a judge, but do you really think one of the car companies are actually concerned about the safety of road users and other pedestrians.
If this were the case, each car would now have a pedestrian airbag that appears open the hood, if the car hits a person in front and how stupid fantastically is it to say, I know you are a reckless driver, so here is a car for you is dangerous with the right design for you not hurt others.
Ironically, this argument was also used by Bajaj Auto managing director Rajiv Bajaj, a self-proclaimed anti-car personality in the industry, while defending his quadricycle Qute when it was panned by Global NCAP He said that since vehicle can not travel to three speed figures, it is likely to cause less damage to the occupants and others around.
Wow Why not ban all mechanized transport and then back to horse around the bike.
After the first round of crash testing NCAP that featured small car Polo, Volkswagen decided to offer proactively airbags standard on all cars Althought he had not been proactive, but you can not criticize them for the good thing.
Later, Toyota also decided to follow this example, and now all their cars have these features as standard offerings As mentioned above, others continue to drag their feet.
Unfortunately, there are many cases where cars for export to India substantially different and much better security credentials than those sold on the domestic market.
The explanation that India cars comply with Indian laws are lax and those of other countries comply with the laws of these countries contradict their assertion that a Hyundai or Honda in India is the same as in Europe, US, Australia or Africa, it is a secret that no one talks like there are skeletons in the closet of everyone.
But it is human life, they play with the next time when you buy a car, do check how many stars he scored this model in crash tests could be you.
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