China Automotive Technology and Technology Research Center and Bosch join hands to advocate safe new car ESP has become a global trend

On November 15th, the launch ceremony of the "Safe Car Campaign" media and the automobile safety media exchange seminar jointly organized by the China Automotive Technology and Research Center and the Bosch Chassis Control System China were held in Suzhou. Nearly a hundred media and participating experts jointly signed the "safe car initiative, starting from me" proposal, and visited the Bosch company's production line and test site in the Suzhou Industrial Park, to observe and experience the advanced automotive active safety technology.

At the meeting, Chen Qiang, an expert at the Military Transportation Institute, said that due to the need to determine the responsibility for accidents and to study the system of traffic activities in isolation without linking to the system conditions for traffic accidents, many research reports at home and abroad have simply factored out a large number of traffic accidents. This is due to human factors, which is not scientific.

From the discussion speeches, we noticed that since Bosch launched the world's first anti-lock brake system (ABS) in 1978, in 1986 and 1995, traction control systems (TCS) and electronic stability were successively introduced. The program (ESP) contributes to global road safety. Su Fandu, president of Bosch's chassis control system in China, introduced that, as the latest active safety technology, the electronic stability program ESP has been proven to have a significant effect in reducing the occurrence of traffic accidents; with the help of ESP, an average of more than 30% Accidents and 50% of serious accidents can be avoided.

A study published in Europe in May this year on the cost and benefit analysis of ESP shows that if ESP is standard in all vehicles, it will prevent 4,000 deaths per year and avoid 100,000 injuries. Benefit about 10 to 16 billion euros. In 2006, the global car assembly rate of ESP was only 26%, and global road experts agreed that ESP should become the standard configuration of every new car. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the United States has conducted a full range of studies and pointed out that if all vehicles are equipped with ESP, the United States will prevent 9,600 road deaths and 240,000 traffic injuries each year. NHTSA has required national legislation. Since 2009, 55% of all new passenger cars and light trucks with a total weight of less than 4.5 tons must be equipped with ESP, which will increase to 100% in 2012.

At present, the European Union has decided to reduce 50% of fatal traffic accidents in 2010. Japan also plans to achieve the same goal in 2013. In addition, UN experts are drafting plans to formulate global ESP technology standards aimed at supplementing existing braking system requirements.

As an important part of the actual automotive product safety testing, Zhao Hang, director of the China Automotive Technology and Research Center, introduced China's implementation of the New Car Evaluation Protocol (C-NCAP). Since the second half of 2006, the C-NCAP Management Center has conducted tests on more than 30 models, including small cars, A-class cars, B-class cars, MPVs, and SUVs, and announced the evaluation results of 31 models, C- NCAP has become an important indicator of the passive safety capabilities of vehicles when consumers purchase cars.

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