The Government of India is likely to make crash tests of all new cars mandatory in the near future.
Times of India reports that National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP) is in the process of setting up a new facility under Centre of Excellence for Passive Safety to conduct crash tests at GARC-Chennai. Two more facilities are being set up at International Centre for Automotive Technology (iCAT) and Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI). The Chennai centre will be capable of performing frontal car to car crash tests, sled tests, full vehicle crash tests and angular car to car crash tests. The facility will also be able to measure loads on the impact block with a load cell wall. The centre features equipment to measure and film crash tests and will be able to perform EuroNCAP and USANCAP tests as well.
The Government is consulting other ministries and the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) to decide on the standard for the New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP). Once these standards are set, samples of all new cars sold in the country will have to obtain a certificate of their structural strength after being subject to the necessary safety tests.
The Government claims that the crash tests complying with the new standards could be started in the next 18 months.
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