Democratising car safety: road map for safer cars 2020

The drive for the democratisation of car safety now needs to be extended across all automotive markets worldwide. We cannot expect to meet the life-saving goals of the current UN Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020) if safer motor vehicles are mainly available only in high income countries. A market for safety must also be promoted in the emerging economies where car sales are growing among an expanding middle class. Consumers in these countries will demand and have the right to expect that vital safety technologies become available universally wherever new cars are being sold. A strategy to achieve this is set out in this Road Map for Safer Cars 2020 which has ten key recommendations. These are summarised on page 55 and include: a package of minimum safety regulations for adoption by the end of the UN Decade, measures to promote a market for safety among car buyers in the rapidly motorising countries, policies to sustain the safety of the vehicles once in use, and a proposed industry voluntary commitment to implement minimum occupant safety standards to all new passenger cars. If this Road Map is followed by 2020 all new cars in the world would pass the minimum UN standards for crashworthiness and crash avoidance. This would spread the advances in automotive safety technology across all countries, mitigate the risks of rapid motorisation, and help achieve a world free from many avoidable and unnecessary road traffic fatalities.

• Record URL:
  • http://issuu.com/globalncap/docs/road_map_2020
• Corporate Authors:

  Global NCAP

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• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 54p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashworthiness; Developing countries; Regulations; Standardization; Vehicle safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: International comparison; Safe systems (vehicles)
• ATRI Terms: Crashworthiness; Developing countries; International comparison; Standardization; Vehicle regulations; Vehicle safety
• Subject Areas: Law;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01560453
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 15 2015 9:18AM