EURO NCAP “Advanced” award for new Volkswagen safety technology
03/18/2020
Sticchi Damiani (ACI): “The potential for improving road safety technologies is enormous. Standards must be agreed and disseminated on all vehicles “.
The “Local Hazard Warning” system, standard warning on the Volkswagen Golf 8, received the “Advanced” award from Euro NCAP. The device allows the car to communicate with everything around it (Car to Everyone – C2X): other vehicles, road and its ‘details’, such as obstacles and objects on the roadway. Thanks to ITS-G5 technology, cars equipped with a “compatible” system are informed of any potentially dangerous situations: vehicle stationary on the roadway, accident, beginning and end of a traffic jam, road construction site, but even if the vehicle in front has a safety system is active, (e.g. emergency stop light or automatic emergency stop).
The last “Advanced” awards awarded go back 6 years: Opel’s blind spot monitoring and the emergency brake that recognizes BMW pedestrians.
“This is a new development area for road safety – said Angelo Sticchi Damiani, president of the Automobile Club d’Italia – with enormous potential for improvement, even for users and the most difficult situations to protect such as when there is no ‘it is sufficient free view, or for motorcyclists “. “However, the standards of these technologies must be agreed early and, above all, disseminated on all vehicles in circulation”.
Information on Euro NCAP
The Euro NCAP Consortium, of which ACI is one of the partners, organizes crash tests on new vehicles and provides automotive consumers with a realistic and independent assessment of the safety performance of some of the most popular cars sold in Europe. Established in 1997 and supported by several European governments, motoring organizations, consumers and insurance companies, Euro NCAP has quickly become a catalyst for encouraging significant safety improvements for new automotive design.
For more information, visit www.euroncap.com. Euro NCAP is also available online and on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Information on Euro NCAP Advanced
Euro NCAP Advanced is a system that rewards advanced security technologies, and integrates the current Euro NCAP star rating system. Award-winning safety technologies have demonstrated scientifically proven safety benefits, based on specific tests performed by Euro NCAP laboratories. With the Advanced award, Euro NCAP encourages car manufacturers to invest in road safety innovations that can save lives on European roads.