Electronic stability programme (ESP) is now compulsory in all newly registered passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Europe, as announced by the European Union (EU). The move is effective onwards from November 1 2014, with the ruling set to be enacted on other classes of vehicles a year later.
Up to 84% of cars sold in Europe in 2014 were equipped with ESP but worldwide, the figures only register at a paltry 59%. According to studies, up to 80% of skidding accidents can be prevented if all vehicles were equipped with ESP.
Statistics gathered from a study conducted by Bosch have shown that in 2011, ESP has helped to avert more than 33,000 accidents and saved more than 1,000 lives in the EU despite ESP being only installed on roughly 40% of vehicles during that period.
President of the Bosch Chassis Systems Control division, Gerhard Steiger claims, “ESP is an unparalleled success story that we hope to replicate outside Europe as well.” Other nations across the globe such as Japan, Korea, Russia and Turkey set to implement a similar move in the coming years.
Back in September 2011, ESP was made mandatory for all vehicles in the United States and Canada with a gross vehicle weight of up to 4.5 metric tons. Apart from that, Australia and Israel have also implemented the need for ESP to be equipped on all new cars.
I totally support this idea.
Instead of making “laws” such as tinting, blinkers, fatwa on SIS and dogs, the Government should literally save precious lives by making it compulsory for all vehicles sold in Malaysia equipped with ESP.
Let’s start with Proton and Perodua and set a good example for the other manufacturers.
UMW should be made haram soon…
When will the useless MITI regulate that all cars in Malaysia also must have ESP?
Airbags was made compulsory 20 years ago in the EU. Until 8 years ago, Proton refused to put any airbags in their cars.
Hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved if Government also regulated that airbags was compulsory.
But Government owned Proton and putting airbags would mean lesser profit for Government, so, our Government had ZERO incentive to put airbags.
The same now. All car companies are owned ultimately by the government. One fine example is Toyota. UMW is a major crony GLC. Until recently, only after public protest and boycott, they put VSC into their Camry. Their Vios and Altis still no VSC.
But they don’t care. You die you die lah. That is their attitude. They got nothing to fear because UMW is the Government and the Government is UMW. So, we can shout all we want Government just want to untung more at the expense of more deaths and lives lost.
Nearly all car companies are owned by GLC. See even Honda, it is owned by DRB Hicom, major major crony.
In other contries, car companies are separate. Government also separate. They behave like a proper Government. When car companies try to do tricks, the Government apprehends them.
Like in the US, Toyota was bullshitting about their faulty accelerator pedals, the US government got fed up with them and came down hard on them. Their DPP Prosecuted Toyota and fined Toyota heavily.
Malaysia how to do that? UMW is Government. Government is UMW. If Government sue UMW, it is like suing themselves!
MITI is the Ministry of International Trade And Industry.
Are you sure regulations governing vehicle safety fall under their responsibility??
Our gov’t always looking for trouble but as you can see now only EU implement this so for Bolehland…10 years later?
this is not going to happen in boleh land.
with compulsory ESP, the car price will be too high and will hurt sales.
Are you sure? Iriz seems to be fairly priced, affordable for most people.
The G should do something like “minor tax reduction for safe car with 6 airbag, and esp” or similar. Encourage people bring in safe car.
The G should make these active and passive safety features in a car tax free. Just take the cost of all ESP, airbags, seatbelts off before calculate tax. Then all will scramble to put in their cars or no one will buy.
Or better yet offer tax cuts for cars with ESP and plenty of airbags.
Also, cars equipped with good safety features together with good and clean driver’s record should have their insurance premium lowered by considerable amount.
All Proton models are seems fairly priced with decent specs, aren’t they? But when it comes to build quality, haha haha…
What is the point having ESP while it won’t work at the moment you need it.
Proton-Murphy law: “Anything can go wrong Pasti go wrong gao gao for sure!”
Proton’s ESP is not made by Proton meh…it was designed and invented by Bosch ..Proton just take and pasang only..so no reliability issues here
Same L0rr is just a butthurt 2013 camry owner bcoz his 190k 2013 camry lousier than proton got no VSC. Next time do abit of study b4 u buy that junk ok? Then you won’t regret for life and keep on butthurt and trolling at proton bcoz cheap proton oso higher safety spec than your so called premium junk.
Go check wiki. In 2005, ESP cost a further USD111 to have in addition to ABS and traction control. Now in 2014 should be much cheaper.
Put side skirting, projector headlamps to make it look garang, no problem.
When it comes to ESP and more airbags that saves life, expensive!!!?
Go figure
That is because customers in Malaysia will prefer a body kit over ESP, so that’s what they are provided with.
In Europe ESP sells cars, that is why even without the legislation most cars already had it. You would have to get the most basic entry level car to not get it… and uf you spend a bit on a slightly higher spec it will have it.
Some Proton has ESP and some Toyota doesn’t have it. Go figure.
Joy to the world of Europe’s.
Agree, in Bolehland Gov still finding ways X 100 to make new-side income from poor Rakyat.
Gov of Malaysia please follow the example and don’t waste time of unrealistic “new(stu***) laws”.
Agreed.
However, this is also chicken and egg situation. If this was to be imposed, “GLCs” like UMW Toyota and DRB HICOM would see a drop in margins which also backfires to them.
No la, as usual practice here, any price increase, just let consumer pay for it and most of the time taking the opportunity increase even more to make more profits.
Blinding headlights and blinkers are dangerous too, likewise tints that are so dark that other drivers can’t see through the car. You need to be able to see if the car ahead is braking, and if you can’t, even with a safe distance, it massively increases stress and wears out drivers, leading to them making stupid mistakes. Driving in a different line than the other car doesn’t work either, cause that will make bikers zig zag, causing them to crash.
Shld make it compulsory for all cars in the world!!!
meanwhile protong still not equip their car with ESP, see toyota vios, city, all equipped with ESP 6 airbag..
hello. where were you all this while? hiding inside cave?? or just blind?
as much as i dont like to be called Proton supporter but the truth fact is – already the Preve and Suprima has it in the top of range specs.
but amazingly, the all new Iriz 5 door hatch has ESC as a standard feature across the range! right from basic specs.
admittedly, the Persona, Inspira, Saga and Exora MPV are not equipped with ESC but as all the models are more than 5 years old, the replacement is not far and would be incorporated when launched (since proton has woke up since 3 years back)
get the facts right.
All Preve and Suprima specs have ESC. And all Iriz specs too.
The sarcasm was strong in his post.
I think he just drunk, putting the sequence wrong. Is the other way
he is one fella only knows to talk cock sing song only…or maybe you are one bright fella just being sarcastic
meanwhile in malaysia…..forget it…we have to be happy with 2 airbags
why cant we ??
we cant because there is people like you
i only ap king…not product planner
Proton dah set example.
Perodua can’t help it as long as they continue to make ciplak Daihatsu.
Lancer and Accord is original Proton design, not ciplak one. Believe that fools.
Overseas the Myvi, even in first gen, had ESP. Axia may be a different story, but Myvi and probably Alza?
I went to Japan for vacation last month.. I went to Toyota Mega Web in Odaiba, near Tokyo.. at the centre, they display a lot of JDM Toyota and weird looking Toyota for Japanese market.. Then, I saw a blue OKU friendly Toyota Passo aka MyVi there.. Suprisingly, i saw a VSC button below the radio head… That’s mean, the Passo (MyVi) in Japan got VSC.. But why Perodua assemble MyVi here without VSC?? Why Perodua??
ESP?? Nah you wont skip if drive carefully and slow down when raining.
How slow do you want to drive? Depending on the amount of water on the road 50 km/h can be too much. And if you drive 50, you may cause accidents too because others won’t expect anyone to drive so slow, so they will have to evade hitting you.
There’s no excuse not to have ESC. Even if you only need it once, that one time will make it worth it.
Perodua. It’s raining and you are driving on the highway behind a lorry when suddenly, a box falls off the lorry and into your path. You sure you have low chance of skidding?
This can happen here if the government is sincere about the rakyat’s safety and welfare. To keep the price of cars affordable, cars equipped with ESC could be given excise tax reduction for the cost of the ESC . It all boils down to the PM aka finance minister to make this happen
It’s not a problem for Malaysian Govt to introduce such law where ESP/ESC/VSC are to be made compulsary features besides standard dual airbags plus their 30 years old ‘baby’ Proton equipped with ESP on Preve and it’s recently launched Iriz.
RM42k car with ESP vs RM258k ‘branded’ car WITHOUT ESP somemore equipment level is haram jadah. You decide.
ESP is a trademark registered by Bosch. The general name is Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
for those not in the know,
Toyota calls it VSC for Vehicle Stability Control
Honda says VSA or Vehicle Stability Assist
Merc and Ssangyong are among companies who call it ESP.
BMW started calling it ASC+T or Automatic Stability Control PLUS Traction, now if not mistaken Dynamic Stability Control.
Porsche uses the term PSM for Porsche Stability Management, not to be mistaken with PASM which is for Active Suspension.
the name is not important. it is the function. even though i doubt it will reduce the number of accidents drastically since it is of no use in bumper-to-bumper traffic crawl and on dry surface drive where the speedlimit is below 50kph (the speed limit in town roads)
ESP compulsory in Malaysia? (Slow slow wait) Even ABS is not compulsory in Malaysia. ESP probably will take 10 years to become compulsory on all vehicle.
In the meantime, their cronies manning the dealerships can squeeze out money from the Rakyat by making ESP a premium item.
Those who cannot afford to feed the cronies, buy el-cheapo cars that can crash and burn, so that poor saps can just die off and no need to be a burden to government handouts.
This is a devilish way to run a government without having to be labelled a communist state.
Thats unfortunately the case, but look at the bright side. If ESP is mandatory, you also get ABS.
If a car has ESP, it likely also has ABS standard as default since it most of not all ESP systems uses data from the wheel speed sensors in ABS systems, along with yaw and other sensors.
On detection of the skid, the systems will utilize the ABS system to brake individual wheels along with limiting power via its traction control program (which sometimes uses ABS to brake individual wheels).
Proton Preve and Proton Iriz is equipped
3 Proton models are equipped only: Iriz, Preve and Suprima S.
Meanwhile,
Proton Saga BLM
Proton Saga FLX
Proton Persona
Proton Gen2
Proton Satria Neo
Proton Exora
Proton Wira
Proton Perdana
Proton Putera
and all OTHER Protons are NOT equipped!!
Most of them have stopped production long time ago. And the current, newly launched models have all the safety features. And those without will be phased out. Persona should die soon, the Saga will be replaced by the Iriz based sedan, which will have ESP. Only the Exora needs to get ESP before it is replaced by a new model.
Alrite,but no need to include the trio,Wira,Perdana & Putra inside. They’re already obsolete models and already ended production!
I laughed out loud reading those cars, you are looking backward not forward!! Those are old cars!!
What he tried to emphasize is that a husband, wife and son got iPhone 6 but:
Grandpa
Great grandpa
Grandma
Great grandma
and all OTHERS who demised don’t have iPhone 6
sorry to say, but this statement is purely, originally, and clearly is st***d.
whay you said is like saying that ALL mercedes, BMW, and Audi in early 20 century were not equipped with ESP. <– so obvious lah, nowadays most of them already have ESP for newer models.
Perodua is the WORST car manufacturer in Malaysia. None of their cars offer side/curtain airbags and ESP!!!!
i rether die in a perodua or toyota than buying a proton
you are welcome
Kalau dah emission pun baru Eu2, jangan harapla ESP ni will be made compulasory. Malu kat Siam weh, dorg dah implement Eu4
ESP is a good idea but our BN government is not enforcing it. Automated Enforcement System is also a good idea and Pakatan is opposing it. So you have a lousy BN government and a lousy Pakatan.