Best-Selling Death Trap Cars
Knowing that a car has been given a zero-star safety rating should be enough to stop someone buying that vehicle. If it does not, then seeing that it has been wrecked should do the trick.
Knowing that a car has been given a zero-star safety rating should be enough to stop someone buying that vehicle. If it does not, then seeing that it has been wrecked should do the trick. India has produced five cars that have been given such a rating, and if the videos of the tests are watched, then it is easy to understand why.
Global New Car Assessment Program is responsible for arranging programs that will be used in emerging markets and have carried out the crash test on seven cars that have been made for sale in India. Five of them received the zero-star rating, and these were the Maruti Suzuki Celerio, Mahindra Scorpio, Maruti Suzuki Eeco, Renault Kwid and the Hyundai Eon. This was for adult safety and child safety there was little improvement. None of them had airbags.
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The Renault Kwid is the 5th best-selling car in India having recently sold a little under 10,000 cars in March. David Ward General Secretary of Global NCAP spoke to the Wall Street Journal and told them that the problem was a combination of consumers not being aware of the danger and manufacturers not being regulated harshly enough. He wants all cars to be made with airbags and believes that all new models must at least reach the minimum crash test standards set out by the UN.
Mexico, Thailand, and Indonesia also fall short when it comes to vehicle safety. In India side and front impact bars will soon be needed – late 2017 has been mentioned.
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Rachel Kowalski
Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.
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