A vehicle safety road map for India's automobile industry

1. India’s Opportunity in the
UN Decade of Action
Presentation by
David Ward
Secretary General
Global New Car Assessment Programme
Road Map for Indian Automobile Industry
College of Traffic Management, NCR Delhi
3 November 2014

2. In the major high income countries
UN safety standards and consumer information promoted by NCAPs have made cars safer than ever before.
This progress is the result of the combination of regulatory push” and “demand pull”.
The challenge now is to extend this successful formula to the rapidly
motorising regions of Asia, Africa
and Latin America. This can be done
by promoting both use of UN safety
regulations and creating NCAPs.
Car Safety’s Winning Formula:
Regulatory Push & Demand Pull

3. The Decade’s goal is to achieve a 50% reduction in the forecast level of road fatalities by 2020 which would avoid 5 million deaths, 50 million injuries. The Decade has a Global Plan with five pillars:
1.
Building Management Capacity
2.
Encouraging Safer User Behaviour
3.
Building Safer Vehicles
4.
Building Safer Roads
5.
Improving Post Crash Care For safer vehicles the Decade Plan, inter alia, recommends applying minimum crash test standards and promoting NCAPs in all world regions.
UN Decade of Action 2011-2020

4. Crash Testing Front & Side Impact
Crash tests for front and side impact are
the most important passive safety
assessment tools used both in legislation
and consumer information programmes.
The frontal impact simulates a car to car
crash in which the test vehicle hits a
barrier that replicates the soft front
end of the other vehicle. The impact is
‘offset’ with a 40% overlap as many frontal
crashes occur in this configuration.
The UN Reg. 94 test speed is 56 km/h whilst
NCAP tests usually use 64 km/h (the speed
at which fatalities are most common).
The side impact test uses a trolley that
hits the vehicle just above the door sill area
at 50 km/h.

5. NCAPs Promoting Safer Cars Worldwide
NCAPs create a ‘market for safety’ by raising
consumer awareness and helping auto makers
to sell safer cars. The first NCAP was launched
in 1978 in the USA. There are now nine NCAPs
in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and
the USA.
NCAPs rate cars with stars awarded based
on scores recorded from instrumented
dummies during the test. Some NCAPs also
include crash avoidance systems, such as ESC .
NCAPs are more stringent than legislative
tests. For example a 5 star Euro NCAP car
has been estimated to have a 36% lower
fatality risk than a car that meets the UN
front and side impact Regulations.

6. UN Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations
The Global Plan of the Decade supports
wider application of the most important
global standards available under the 1958
and 1998 agreements of the UN World
Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle
Regulations (WP29).
These are:
Reg. 14 Seat belt anchorages
Reg. 16 Safety belts & restraints
Reg. 44 Child restraints
Reg. 94 Frontal collision
Reg. 95 Lateral collision
Reg.13H (GTR 8) Electronic stability control
Reg.127 (GTR 9) Pedestrian protection

7. On 18-19 November 2015 Brazil will host the 2nd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety to review progress of the UN Decade of Action. Global NCAP is preparing a ‘Road Map 2020 for Safer Cars’ which will be launched ahead of the 2015 Ministerial. It will focus on the challenge of improving car safety in the rapidly motorising middle income countries. Global NCAP will strongly recommend a phased (2015 to 2020) application to all new cars of the most important UN Regs. & GTRs , or equivalent national standards where applicable.
Global NCAP Road Map 2020

8. Global NCAP’s 2015 Road Map Regulatory Recommendations
Road Map for Safer Cars 2020
All New Car Models
All Cars Produced
Stage 1 - UN Regulations* for:
Frontal Impact (No.94)
Side Impact (No.95)
Seat Belts Anchorages and Seat Belts (Nos.14 & 16)
31 December 2015
31 December 2018
Stage 2 - UN Regulations* for:
ESC (No. 13H or GTR No.8)
Pedestrian Protection (No.127 or GTR No.9)
31 December 2018
31 December 2020

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Chassis Systems Control
Crash Avoidance: Global Overview of ABS/ESC Installation Rates
ESC
ABS
Passenger cars & LCV <6
Info: ESP contains ABS Based on production
72%
67%
59%
19%
23%
28%
2020
2017
2014
World
86%
30%
4%
14%
70%
96%
2020
2017
2014
Brazil
94%
92%
84%
4%
6%
12%
2020
2017
2014
Europe
71%
57%
19%
21%
36%
48%
2020
2017
2014
Russia
90%
87%
74%
7%
9%
19%
2020
2017
2014
Japan
57%
49%
32%
33%
39%
49%
2020
2017
2014
China
9%
5%
4%
43%
39%
26%
2020
2017
2014
India
100%
100%
100%
30%
44%
52%
93%
96%
97%
96%
98%
98%
81%
88%
90%
67%
93%
92%
87%
90%
91%
98%
97%
95%
2%
2%
4%
2020
2017
2014
North America
99%
99%
100%

10. Global NCAP’s Indian Road Map Recommendations for Safer Cars
Global NCAP welcomes the proposed initiative for a Bharat New Car Assessment Programme (BNVP) which is a very positive development.
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We recommend that the BNVP be established as non-mandatory and used only for consumer information. The frontal impact test speed should follow the best practice of other NCAPs and be at 64 km/h.
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We recommend that India applies UN regulation 94 (the 56 km/h frontal test ) and Regulation 95 to all new car designs by the end of 2015, and then to all cars in production by 2018.
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We further recommend that India mandates Anti Lock Brakes and Electronic Stability Control in a similar phased manner so that they are both mandatory in all new car models by 2020. Thank you for your attention