Meeting Focuses on Southeast Asia Vehicle Safety
The goal of the new organization is to improve motor-vehicle safety standards, encourage a market for safer vehicles and raise consumer awareness in Southeast Asia.
Vehicle safety in Southeast Asia will be the focus of an upcoming meeting in Australia.
The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) is hosting representatives from the fledgling Southeast Asian New Car Assessment Program (SEA NCAP) in Sydney from Feb. 13-16.
About 15 delegates from Southeast Asia will be attending the meeting that includes a demonstration of a frontal-offset crash test.
The Global New Car Assessment Program and the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research signed a memorandum of understanding in December to establish a pilot project for a SEA NCAP to improve motor-vehicle safety standards, encourage a market for safer vehicles and raise consumer awareness in Southeast Asia.
ANCAP also is a signatory to the agreement along with the automobile associations of Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
ANCAP says in a statement its role is to provide technical and program support and advice to SEA NCAP to ensure the program adopts protocols and procedures that will provide meaningful, accurate and reliable test results.
It also will assist SEA NCAP in aligning with other NCAPs around the world.
A crash-test facility under construction in Malaysia is due to begin operations in mid-2012.
“With many vehicles supplied to the Australasian market from factories in Southeast Asia, this new program will (benefit) the Asia-Pacific region and beyond,” ANCAP says.
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