New NCAP lunacy
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New NCAP lunacy
Here's the new regs, no wonder cars are getting more and more unaffordable as the idealistic Tefal Heads seem to be in charge:
'New Euro NCAP car safety tests prioritise underwater escape and locked-in kids
Five-star cars now need windows that work underwater, as testing body looks harder at post-crash safety'
Perhaps with a view to rising incidences of global warming-induced flash flooding, but more likely as a response to the increasing number of vehicles entering production with electrically-operated door catches, the test body will now insist that any car so-equipped must ensure windows and doors remain operable when submerged - at least for a period of time that’s deemed long enough for any occupants to make their escape.
Children left behind in locked cars anywhere are another area where Euro NCAP is intervening, with a new requirement that five star cars must have Child Detection Systems that will monitor the car’s interior for the presence of an occupant, and will be able to notify the driver, or the emergency services, if parents accidentally forget to let their kids out of the car.
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/3523 ... ocked-kids
So how many on here drowned in a submerged car or died as a result of their parents forgetting about them?
Yet another thing to go wrong and write a car off,
'New Euro NCAP car safety tests prioritise underwater escape and locked-in kids
Five-star cars now need windows that work underwater, as testing body looks harder at post-crash safety'
Perhaps with a view to rising incidences of global warming-induced flash flooding, but more likely as a response to the increasing number of vehicles entering production with electrically-operated door catches, the test body will now insist that any car so-equipped must ensure windows and doors remain operable when submerged - at least for a period of time that’s deemed long enough for any occupants to make their escape.
Children left behind in locked cars anywhere are another area where Euro NCAP is intervening, with a new requirement that five star cars must have Child Detection Systems that will monitor the car’s interior for the presence of an occupant, and will be able to notify the driver, or the emergency services, if parents accidentally forget to let their kids out of the car.
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/3523 ... ocked-kids
So how many on here drowned in a submerged car or died as a result of their parents forgetting about them?
Yet another thing to go wrong and write a car off,
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Re: New NCAP lunacy
Any self-important bell who even considers NCAP test scores when purchasing a car should be drowned.
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Re: New NCAP lunacy
Isn't it ncap that gives points for abs,end as well as auto braking and reader cruise to help prevent accidents? No wonder folk don't need to know how to drive today.
Same can be said for pedestrian safety bonnets that pop up at the hinge. If a two tonne lump of metal doing 60 hits you I'm sure the bonnet popping up will be the least of your worries.
Same can be said for pedestrian safety bonnets that pop up at the hinge. If a two tonne lump of metal doing 60 hits you I'm sure the bonnet popping up will be the least of your worries.
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Re: New NCAP lunacy
The problem is that the more people you have involved the more idiotic ideas they come up with to justify their existence.
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Re: New NCAP lunacy
At least the kid detection might save some dogs left in hot cars.
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Re: New NCAP lunacy
I love the way they don’t even attempt to make it clear whether the argument was before, during or after the car went into the lake.A PUB landlady who drowned ina car which plunged into a lake spent the evening arguing with her husband, a court heard.
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The picture accompanying the story in that link is obviously an advert but as I sped-read it and scrolled quickly down I thought for an instant it was actually of New Brighton Marine Lake. Fuck me, I thought, they've smartened that up a bit since I last saw it.....
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Re: New NCAP lunacy
I wonder if this will prevent a quick kip in the back of a car in a lay-by on a long trip… or worse, calling the police if you start dogging in the back!LynehamHerc wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 4:50 pm Children left behind in locked cars anywhere are another area where Euro NCAP is intervening, with a new requirement that five star cars must have Child Detection Systems that will monitor the car’s interior for the presence of an occupant, and will be able to notify the driver, or the emergency services, if parents accidentally forget to let their kids out of the car.