Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, vehicle safety evaluation for 11 vehicle types
10 cars received first class
G80, trail blazer, GV80 highest by category
2 models other than G80 are’recall issues’, excluding’excellent cars’
Audi Q7, alone 5th grade’failed point’
The cause of the failure of the rear seat harness safety aid
Genesis G80
[아시아경제 이춘희 기자] Hyundai’s Genesis G80 was selected as the safest car among 11 newly launched and imported models in Korea this year.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 31st that the Genesis G80 was selected as an excellent car in the mid- and large-sized sedan field in this year’s automobile safety assessment. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport evaluates the collision safety of automobiles for new cars sold every year and announces the results.
This year’s target car models are 8 domestic cars (▲Kia K5, Sorento, Carnival ▲Chevrolet Trail Blazer ▲Hyundai Avante, Genesis G80, GV80 ▲Renault Samsung XM3), 3 imported cars (▲Renault Capture ▲Benz A220 ▲Audi Q7) Proceeded to. Newly launched cars, Cars with high sales volume were selected as target models.
As a result of summing the evaluation results in three safety areas, such as collision, pedestrian, and accident prevention, all 10 models except the Audi Q7, which received 5th grade in the comprehensive evaluation I received the first grade.
G80’Excellent Car’ selected… Trail Blazer and GV80 are recalled, excluding excellent cars
In particular, the Genesis G80 ranked first in the mid- and large-sized sedan field with a total grade score of 97.3 points, and was selected as an’excellent vehicle safety evaluation in 2020′. The G80 recorded the highest score among the 11 car models for this evaluation in each field. ▲Crash safety 60 points (60 points perfect) ▲ Pedestrian safety 18.6 points (20 points perfect) ▲ Accident prevention safety 18.7 points (20 points perfect).
In order to increase pedestrian safety, the G80 is equipped with an’active hood’ that lifts the hood (bonnet) in the event of a pedestrian collision to mitigate the impact of the pedestrian, and is equipped with all advanced safety devices except the intelligent maximum speed limiter in the field of accident prevention and safety. The points were highly praised.
Genesis GV80
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport planned to select excellent cars in the mid-size SUV and large SUV sectors, but trail blazers (90.8 points) and GV80 (92.5 points), which received the highest points in each field, were excluded from the selection of excellent cars because of the recall history.
An official from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport explained, “In consideration of social repercussions, manufacturing defects and vehicles under investigation were excluded from the award.” The Chevrolet Trail Blazer has been recalled for an electro-hydraulic brake booster, and the GV80 has ▲ lane change assist function ▲Driving distance ▲There were three recalls related to the high pressure pump.
Audi Q7 faces new standards of evaluation… Audi “to be improved”
Audi Q7 45 TDI Quattro
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport this year introduced a capping system in which 0 points are given to the evaluation item when the amount of impact exceeds the upper limit of human injury during collision evaluation in order to reduce the risk of serious injury to major parts of the vehicle occupant’s head and chest.
The introduction of this system played a decisive role in the Audi Q7 alone receiving a 5th grade among the vehicle models subject to this evaluation. In Q7, the frontal collision safety score was scored as 0, exceeding the upper limit of the standard head injury of the female human model in the rear seat in the safety evaluation of the frontal collision.
As a result, it received 41.3 points (68.8%) in the collision safety field and 5 grades (70.4 points) in the overall grade. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport “The overall score of 70.4 It corresponds to the 3rd grade as the overall grade calculation standard, but it was given a 5th grade because it did not meet the minimum crash safety standard according to the grade adjustment criteria for each grade.” If the result is less than 69% of the collision safety, the fifth grade is given. .
As the Audi Q7 received the highest score of 5 stars in the European safety rating, this is inevitably a shocking result for Audi. The reason for this low evaluation was that the’pretensioner’ was not installed on the rear seat belt. The pretensioner When a collision occurs, the seat belt is momentarily rewinded to reduce the width of the passenger moving forward, thereby improving the effect of the seat belt. The same vehicle sold in Europe is equipped with such a pretensioner device.
Audi Volkswagen Korea said “next year During the first half of the year, we plan to improve safety by installing a pretensioner in the rear seat of the Q7.”
In addition to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, from this year, to strengthen the safety of not only pedestrians, but also various traffic-impaired people, the automatic emergency braking system for detecting cyclists (Cyclist AEBS) and automatic emergency braking system for pedestrians at night (Night AEBS) have been newly established. As a result of the evaluation, 10 of the 11 vehicle models were equipped with an emergency automatic braking function that detects bicycle users, and obtained an average of 79 points. It was confirmed that the emergency automatic braking system for pedestrians at night can be operated in all 11 vehicle types.
There were also changes in evaluation items according to technological changes. Among the advanced safety devices in the field of accident prevention and safety, the front collision warning device was changed to an emergency automatic braking device, and the lane departure warning device was changed to a lane maintenance support device. Although the evaluation items for advanced safety devices were advanced, the vehicle installation rate showed an increasing trend. In particular, the emergency automatic braking system was basically installed for all vehicle models to be evaluated, and the standard installation rate of vehicles produced after last year increased 18.2 percentage points from 57.3% last year to 75.5% this year.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Motor Policy Officer Yoon Jin-hwan said, “Next year, as electric vehicle models become diversified and sales increase, electric vehicles are selected as an evaluation vehicle to evaluate the risk of fire and explosion of the driving battery in the event of a collision, and the risk of high voltage electric shock.” Details on the results of this vehicle safety assessment can be found through the website of the automotive safety assessment website. The test video can also be viewed through the YouTube KNCAP channel.
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