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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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  Audi to own up to self-driving car accidents – report

  11 September 2017 / 5 comments

  Audi has stolen a march in the race of automomous vehicle developments, with the first Level 3 autonomous car in the new A8 flagship sedan. Naturally there are concerns with what happens in the event […]

   

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  Mazda CX-5 scores five-star Euro NCAP safety rating

  6 September 2017 / 12 comments

  The Mazda CX-5 has been awarded the maximum five-star safety rating by the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP), where the result will be shared with the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) as […]

   

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  VIDEO: Why you absolutely have to use a child seat

  30 August 2017 / 31 comments

  It’s 7pm, which means the long Merdeka and Hari Raya Aidiladha weekend has already kicked off for most of you. Many will be taking advantage of the break to head back to their hometowns, and […]

   

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  Toyota Safety Sense reduces rear-end crashes by 90%

  29 August 2017 / 12 comments

  Japanese automaker giant Toyota has announced plans to expand its adoption of safety support technologies to continue reducing the incidence of collisions, in particular rear-end collisions. The company has found that vehicles equipped with the […]

   

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