A Road Map for Safer Cars by2020

Presentation by

David Ward Secretary GeneralGlobal New Car Assessment Programme

2014 Global NCAP Annual Meeting & RoundtableCATARC, Tianjin, China, 30 October 2014

After a forty year effort motor vehicles in the major industrialised countries are safer than ever before.

This is the result of “regulatory push” and “demand pull”. The combination of national and UN safety standards and consumer information promoted by NCAPs have created a market for safer vehicles.

The challenge now is to extend this progress to the rapidly motorising regions of Asia, Africaand Latin America.

Auto Safety’s Winning Formula: Regulatory Push & Demand Pull

Changing Geography of the Global Car Market

Top 10 Car Producing Countries/regions 2013

The Decade’s goal is to ‘stabilize and thenreduce the level of road fatalities’. This wouldbring a 50% reduction in the forecast level of fatalities by 2020 and avoid five million deaths, 50 million injuries and $3 trillion in social costs.

The Decade is supported by a Global Plan for the Decade with five pillars:

1. Building Management Capacity2. Encouraging Safer User Behaviour3. Building Safer Vehicles4. Building Safer Roads 5. Improving Post Crash Care

The Decade Plan includes seven recommended activities in ‘pillar three’ to promote vehicle safety

UN Decade of Action 2011-2020

Decade Plan for Safer Vehicles – Activity 1

Encourage Member States to apply and promulgate motor vehicle safety standards as developed by the UN’s World Forum for the Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP 29).

Decade Plan for Safer Vehicles – Activity 2

Encourage implementation of New Car Assessment Programmesin all world regions to increase the availability of consumer information about the safety performance of motor vehicles.

Decade Plan for Safer Vehicles – Activity 3

Encourage agreement to ensure that all new motor vehicles are equipped with seat belts and anchorages that meet regulatory requirements and pass applicable crash test standards (as minimum safety features).

Decade Plan for Safer Vehicles – Activity 4

Encourage global deployment of crash avoidance technologies with proven effectiveness such as Electronic Stability Control and Anti Lock Braking Systems (ABS) in motorcycles.

ESC is mandatory in all new cars in Australia, Europe, Japan and the USA (since 2012). In 2008a UN global technical regulation for ESC was adopted.

For motorcycles equipped with optional ABS Therate of fatal crashes is 37 per cent lower thanfor those same models without ABS (IIHS 2011).

In the EU from 2016 ABS will be mandatory for new models above 125 cc, and from 2017 for all motorcycles in production.

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Decade Plan for Safer Vehicles – Activity 5

Encourage use of fiscal and other incentives for motor vehicles that provide high levels of road user protection and discourage export of new and used cars that have reduced safety standards.

Demand for safer vehicles can grow quickly if encouraged by incentives.

Incentives can include reduced sales tax or registration charges for cars that meetchosen technology requirements or standards.

The insurance industry can also take a lead in offering premium reductions for safer vehicles.

Decade Plan for Safer Vehicles – Activity 6

Sustain investment in research and development of safety technologies that will improve vehicle safety and reduce risks to vulnerable road users.

Real world claims data suggest that Autonomous Emergency Braking Systems (AEB) can reduce rear-end crashes by one quarter or more and will lead to a significant reduction of injuries.

Priority area for action are new technologies to mitigate pedestrian injury. Effectiveness of pedestrian detection systems are promising. The combination effect of improved pedestrian crashworthiness (softer and ‘forgiving’ car fronts) and crash avoidance (lowering collision speed) willbring important gains in safety for pedestrians.

Decade Plan for Safer Vehicles – Activity 7

Encourage managers of governments and private sector fleets to purchase and maintain vehicles that offer advanced safety technologies and high levels of occupant protection.

Public and private fleets dominate new car sales. Fleet managers choices will raise demand for safer motor vehicles.

For example the mining company BHP Billiton andthe governments of Australian and Sweden now onlybuy Five Star NCAP rated vehicles.

The new ISO 39001 standard for Road Traffic SafetyManagement Systems and Global NCAPs new Fleet Safety Guide will also encourage improved fleet safety.

Global NCAP’s 2015 Road Map Regulatory Recommendations

Road Map for Safer Cars2020

All New Car Models All Cars Produced

Stage 1 - UN Regulations*for:Frontal Impact (No.94)Side Impact (No.95)Seat Belts Anchorages andSeat 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.127or GTR No.9)

31 December 2018 31 December 2020

In advance of the 2015 Ministerial Conference in Brazil Global NCAP will publish a Road Map for Safer Vehicles encouraging all UN Member States to adopt a phased mandatory application of the most important UN Regulations , Global Technical Regulations, or equivalent national standards where applicable (e.g. FVMSSs etc.).

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