tailieunhanh - The New Car Assessment Program Suggested Approaches for Future Program Enhancements

Once students undertake this project, your role is to help them understand the science of what’s happening by asking questions. I am always amazed that students cannot answer the most basic questions about the experiment, such as “What did the car do?” Until they understand that you will hold them responsible for looking, listening, and understanding, they will take the easy way out: “I don’t know.” If they say they didn’t see what happened, direct them to run the experiment again with the forewarning that you will ask the same question immediately afterward. This sharpens their acumen. Why this emphasis on observing? It is the most. | . Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA DOT HS 810 698 January 2007 The New Car Assessment Program Suggested Approaches for Future Program Enhancements National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Department of Transportation 2 Table of Contents I. II. Overview of the New Car Assessment History of Comprehensive Review of III. Approaches for Enhancing Changes in the vehicle fleet crash characteristics test devices and injury Frontal Side Rollover Rear Encourage the Implementation and Consumer Demand of Crash Avoidance Technologies. 16 Enhance the Presentation and Dissemination of Safety Combined safety Presentation of Safety V. Other VI. Additional areas not VII. Conclusion. 25 Appendix A Determination of Pre-Crash Scenario I. Introduction The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA is an integral part of the United States Department of Transportation DOT and its mission is to save lives prevent injuries and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs associated with motor vehicle use and highway travel. To accomplish this NHTSA collects and analyzes motor vehicle crash data and develops promotes and implements educational programs vehicle safety standards research and enforcement programs. In 1979 NHTSA created the New Car Assessment Program NCAP to improve occupant safety by developing and implementing meaningful and timely comparative safety information that encourages manufacturers to voluntarily improve the safety of their vehicles. Since that time the agency has improved the program by adding rating programs providing information to consumers in a more user friendly format and substantially increasing accessibility to the information via the website . The program has strongly .