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EuroNCAP, the European New Car Assessment Programme, is a safety assessment programme for automobiles supported by several European governments, many major manufacturers and motoring organisations across the world. An automobile is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own motor. ...
EuroNCAP publishes safety reports on new cars and awards 'star ratings' based on the performance of the vehicles in a variety of crash tests, including front, side and pole (side) impacts, and impacts with pedestrians. A pedestrian at the intersection of Alinga Street and Northbourne Avenue, Canberra, Australia Look up Pedestrian on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. ...
The front impact test is conducted at 64km/h (40mph) into an offset deformable barrier. The barrier overlaps 40 percent of the front of the test car in order to replicate an impact with another vehicle. The side impact test at 50km/h (30mph) is a perpendicular impact where a deformable barrier mounted on the front of a crash trolley is propelled into the side of the test vehicle. The pole test at 29km/h (18mph) is an optional test designed to assess the performance of a head-protection device (such as a head curtain airbag) in a situation where a vehicle leaves the road and collides side-on with a narrow rigid object such as a tree or telegraph pole. The pedestrian tests are designed to replicate the impact of the test vehicle with a pedestrian (both adult and child) at 40km/h (25mph).
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Originally established by the British Government in 1933, since privatisation in 1996 the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) in Crowthorne Berkshire is a private laboratory involved in all areas of road transport and environmental impact research, including vehicle crash tests. ...
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The field of road safety is concerned with reducing the numbers or the consequences of vehicle crashes, by developing and implementing management systems ideally based in a multidisciplinary and holistic approach, with interrelated activities in a number of fields. ...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, often pronounced nit-suh) is a U.S. Government agency, part of the Department of Transportation, responsible for setting safety standards and verifying compliance by automobile manufacturers. ...
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