All the best Euro NCAP! You may be wondering why there is so much excitement over the fact that the car safety testing organization Euro NCAP is celebrating 20 years. It is to a large extent responsible for the fact that our cars are so safe today, as it drives car brands to try to do even more in the field of safety. Euro NCAP is a kind of our guardian angel on the roads and, as it boasts, it has saved more than 78 thousand lives since 1997. Are you interested in car safety 20 years ago and today? Then be sure to watch the video comparing the crash safety of a car of the latest date and a car from the late 1990s.
Euro NCAP is celebrating 20 years. It's an organization since 1997, when she performed the first safety collisions, in the name of security already smashed 1800 vehicles and saved almost 80 thousand lives. At the beginning they are with their own safety criteria faced many criticisms (among others that it was impossible to achieve all the stars), but they persisted and eventually Euro NCAP became reference name, which car brands also use as a selling point.
Their reviews are to motorists what they are to foodies Michelin stars. As a result, Euro NCAP greatly influenced the development of automobiles, as buyers can objectively compare safety quality of newcomers to the market. The tests were swallowed up in two decades 160 thousand euros, which is why security tests have greatly improved both passive as well as active safety horses of steel and changed the course of history, because before that safety quality was not public, and manufacturers only had to satisfy basic legal criteria.
Now cars are also made with their tests in mind and this one Brussels organization we have a lot to thank for serials airbags, ABS, tire pressure monitoring system etc.
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On the occasion of the anniversary, the Euro NCAP institute published a crash comparison of the model Rover 100 from 1997 and more recent Honda Jazz. The difference is obvious and very vivid, the fate of passengers but today it is much less cruel in the event of a collision. Volvo S40 (1997) was the first car in history to get it all safety stars. Today, nine out of ten cars sold in Europe boast a Euro NCAP rating.
The first tests were carried out on vehicles Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Polo, which received three of the then four stars (today there are five). When they evaluated then pedestrian protection, no car received more than two stars. Next year, there will be Euro NCAP, which "roasts" also on assistance systems, also started passing rider protection ratings. The system for recognizing cyclists and avoiding accidents with them will also be scrutinized.
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