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  2018 Toyota Vios gets five-star ASEAN NCAP rating – two other vehicles get zero-stars in Q4 2017 testing

  19 December 2017 / 46 comments

  The 2018 Toyota Vios has been awarded a five-star rating from the New Car Assessment Programme for Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN NCAP). The result obtained by the new Thai-made Vios – for the Singapore market […]

   

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  Fiat Punto gets zero-star Euro NCAP safety rating

  14 December 2017 / 19 comments

  In its latest round of testing, the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) has given the Fiat Punto a zero-star safety rating – the first model to receive such a result, according to Euro […]

   

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  Hyundai Kona receives five-star ANCAP safety rating

  13 December 2017 / 7 comments

  The Hyundai Kona has been awarded a five-star safety rating by the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). The rating applies to all variants of the B-segment SUV sold in Australia and New Zealand from […]

   

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  Toyota Safety Sense – next-gen rolling out in 2018

  4 December 2017 / 18 comments

  Toyota has released details of its second-generation Toyota Safety Sense suite of driver assists, which is set to be rolled out on production models starting next year. While the system continues to use the existing […]

   

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  Volvo releases video on child safety in cars; teams up with Volvo Trucks, KidZania to spread awareness

  30 November 2017 / 12 comments

  Volvo Car Malaysia (VCM) has launched a new video showing the importance of keeping children safe in the car. The film puts specific focus on the correct usage of seat belts and child safety seats […]

   

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  2018 Perodua Myvi gets five-star ASEAN NCAP rating

  16 November 2017 / 80 comments

  The 2018 Perodua Myvi has been awarded a five-star safety rating from the New Car Assessment Program for Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN NCAP). The safety rating is applicable to all variants of the five-door hatch, […]

   

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  Road deaths totalled 5,083 in first nine months of 2017

  13 November 2017 / 10 comments

  Malaysian roads saw a total of 5,083 deaths from 400,788 road incidents in the first nine months of this year, according to a Bernama report. From that total, 1,077 fatalities involved those aged between six […]

   

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  Renault developing autonomous obstacle avoidance – system to be better than professional test drivers?

  10 November 2017 / 1 comment

  Autonomous driving systems are improving their capabilities by the moment, it seems, and now Renault has announced that it has developed a system to tackle challenging driving situations and specifically, an obstacle avoidance capability that […]

   

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  Rampai Puteri Medical Centre launches Buckle Up, Baby! campaign – free child seats this November

  2 November 2017 / 4 comments

  Rampai Puteri Medical Centre (RPMC) launched its Buckle Up, Baby! campaign yesterday in collaboration with the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), aimed at curbing child fatalities in road accidents. The hospital is providing […]

   

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  Haval H2 receives five-star safety rating from ANCAP

  30 October 2017 / 17 comments

  In its latest round of testing, the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) has awarded the Haval H2 with a five-star safety rating. The safety rating for the H2 applies to models sold in Australia […]

   

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  Hyundai develops the first airbag system for sunroofs

  27 October 2017 / 6 comments

  Hyundai Mobis, an affiliate company of the Hyundai Motor Group, has developed the world’s first panoramic sunroof airbag system. According to the company, road test and reliability tests of the system were completed this month, […]

   

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  Rampai Puteri Medical Centre to present child car seats to babies delivered at the hospital in November

  16 October 2017 / 13 comments

  With thousands of vehicles on the road every day, children – from infants to five – are always at risk being seated in the back seat without any tailored safety features in place. Many still […]

   

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  Hyundai alert system to remind of kids in rear seats

  4 October 2017 / 27 comments

  Children forgotten about and left behind in a locked vehicle is one of many things which could go wrong. Hyundai aims to rectify that with the Rear Occupant Alert System, which uses ultrasonic sensors to […]

   

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  Driver killed after thrown out in crash, fake seat belt clip seen – is the (in)convenience worth your life?

  25 September 2017 / 75 comments

  A car crash which occured last Friday saw the driver of the sole vehicle involved lose his life after being thrown from the car he was driving. This would imply that the driver was insufficiently […]

   

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  Tesla shuts AEB functions pending validation, update

  18 September 2017 / 4 comments

  Having updated its autonomous emergency braking (AEB) to react at highway speeds, Tesla has temporarily switched off the system in select new Model S, Model X and Model 3 units, promising owners of affected cars […]

   

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