सुखपाल खैरा को बयान देना पड़ेगा महंगा, चुनाव में पूर्वांचल समाज सबक सिखाएगा-संदीप मिश्रा
Safety – A Matter of Concern
By Kanavraj Singh Vilkhu
Ludhiana : Car safety is paramount today to decrease the impact of collisions due to other cars hitting us or vehicles crashing into the dividers on the roads. With the increase in car accidents, the Safety features currently available in modern-day cars will likely improve.
It all starts with the car’s basic structure, which includes the quality of materials used to build the car. The car’s body also needs to be rigid enough to survive any impact. And this is where the Global New Car Assessment Program comes into play. It is an organisation that assesses the new cars launched by various brands keeping Safety as a priority.
Almost every Carmaker focuses on Car Safety these days by equipping them with features like Anti-Lock Braking Systems, 2 Airbags, ISOFIX child seat mounts, etc., and many other features as standard. The Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, urges carmakers to equip their cars with six airbags as standard.
Indian Carmakers such as Mahindra and Tata Motors make new cars with safety their primary concern. Unfortunately, India didn’t have any Made in Indian cars, which scored 5 stars in the Global NCAP Crash Test. But Tata Motors proved that Indian cars could be safe than foreign companies’ cars. When they sent their Tata Nexon for the crash test, it became the first Indian car to score full 5 stars in the crash test in 2018. This was later on followed by Mahindra when they sent their XUV300 for the crash test.
Now, India has 5 cars that secured full 5 stars in the Global NCAP Crash Test, starting from Tata Nexon, followed by Mahindra XUV300, Tata Altroz, Tata Punch, and the latest entrant in the list is the Mahindra XUV700. In addition, other carmakers such as Toyota and Suzuki with their Urban Cruiser and Vitara Brezza, Honda Jazz, have secured 4 out of 5 stars in the crash test.
But carmakers such as Hyundai and Kia Motors, who focus only on providing as many features as possible in a car, disappoint the Indian audience in the crash test. For example, the latest generation of Hyundai Creta, along with Kia Seltos, Hyundai i20, scored only 3 stars out of 5 in the crash test. On the other hand, Suzuki cars were once considered tin cans with significantly less Safety, but with every new launch, the brand is improving on the safety front.
The previous week, an accident occurred in Ludhiana at the South City-Laadowal By-Pass, where an earlier generation Toyota Fortuner and a previous Hyundai Creta met an accident. The Fortuner was damaged to quite an extent. But due to its rigid build quality, none of the passengers died but had minor injuries, and the only person critically is safe now. The Creta was a top-spec model with 6 airbags, and every passenger is safe now.
Features are also important in a car, but Safety is much more important. What will a person do with features if they don’t feel safe while travelling in a car? So, the automobile manufacturers should focus on Safety first.
(Payal Mohindra)
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