Translation of "NCAP " (English → French) :

Euro NCAP | European New Car Assessment Programme

non-linear circuit analysis program | NCAP [Abbr.]

17. Is worried about the safety of those vulnerable road users; including young people, for whom the death rate is particularly high; notes that the risk of death in motorcycle or moped travel is 17 times higher than in car travel and that walking or cycling is up to nine times riskier; stresses that safety needs to be significantly improved not only for car occupants but also for weaker road users such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists; highlights the need to focus on road safety education, legislation and control measures on higher-risk groups through a more holistic approach; calls on the Commission to propose effective measures to ensure that all vulnerable road users benefit from maximum protection - such as hazard warnin ...[+++]g lights for the safety of two-wheeled vehicles; maintains that all road users should be made aware of the risks and of ways to reduce them; welcomes the EU- funded New Programme for the Assessment of Child Seats (NPACS) that establishes harmonised test and rating protocols; calls on the European Commission to investigate whether child safety could be given higher priority in the Community road safety policy, whether extra attention to pedestrian safety could be brought to bear in Euro NCAP crash tests and in the introduction of the second phase of the directive on pedestrian safety;

It should be stressed that this already forms part of the EURO-NCAP programme and that the findings will be published as soon as evaluation of the tests has been completed.

Since airbags have become much more common for passengers in the rear of cars as well, it has become all the more essential to develop user-friendly airbags that are easy to deactivate and the rapporteur hopes that the EURO-NCAP programme will yield practical results as soon as possible.

2. Recalls the 24-year history of pedestrian-friendly car fronts to date, with EU and national funding of research in this field, the work of the European Enhanced Vehicle-Safety Committee (EEVC) and its different working groups, contradictory benefit studies by several national road safety institutes on one side and the European Association of Automotive Manufacturers (ACEA) on the other, debates on test methods, the presentation at a relatively early stage of cars which to a considerable extent already meet the EEVC criteria, the aborted attempts by the Commission to come forward with a legislative proposal and the subsequent promises in various communications to attempt again to propose a legislative act, and European New Car Assessment Progra ...[+++]mme (Euro-NCAP) tests in which most cars performed rather poorly;