Safety Assist Technology (SAT) comprises technologies that are designed for vehicles to avoid accidents from occurring and mitigate injury towards the passengers. Apart from crashworthiness performance of vehicles, safety assist has become an integral part in the rating assessment of established New Car Assessment Programs (NCAPs) around the world, including ASEAN NCAP. Since the establishment…

Putrajaya, 26 June 2015 – ASEAN NCAP Secretary-General, Mr. Khairil Anwar bin Abu Kassim, was last week appointed as Chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers International, Malaysia (SAE-M) during the society’s 13th annual general meeting. “Khairil has serviced the society since May 2008 and has been appointed to various positions in the committee including…

ASEAN NCAP’s Secretary-General was recently interviewed by Business Circle. During a five-minute job interview at the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) in 2008, Khairil Abu Kassim promised the then director-general, the late Prof Dr Radin Umar Sohadi, that in just three years, he would set up the Malaysian Vehicle Assessment Programme (MyVAP). Read…

Child safety seats or popularly referred to as child restraint system (CRS) are seats designed to provide protection to infants and children from injury or death in vehicle collisions. In many countries, car seats are legally required. The Malaysian government has also recently begun a campaign to use child car seats because of its many…

Dear Vehicle Safety Fighter and Believer, We sincerely invite you to the ASEAN Automobile Safety Forum 2015/003 together with International Conference on Southeast Asia’s Decade of Action for Road Safety: Safer Vehicles. ASEAN Automobile Safety Forum (AASF) conferences have been organized in South East Asia for the last 2 years. The AASF 2013/001 was organized…

Putrajaya – The Road Transport Department (RTD) recently launched a campaign to promote the use of child car seat. The campaign is an advocacy programme for RTD to encourage the use of child car seat before making it mandatory supposedly in 2017. The Deputy Transport Minister, Datuk Aziz Kaprawi said the government wants to educate…

KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) — The Asean New Car Assessment Programme (Asean NCAP), under the auspices of the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros), has urged both the government and private sectors to work together to ensure enforcement and intensify awareness programmes on road safety. Asean NCAP secretary-general Khairil Anwar Abu Kassim said…

ASEAN NCAP Facebook Selfie Contest has ended yesterday (10 March 2015) at 12:00 PM (Malaysia time), and that also marked the end of ASEAN NCAP Road Tour 2015 activities. Winners, with most LIKES: First prize – OPPO Find 7a smart phone: 1) Siti Aishah Md Johari – 323 likes            …

Global NCAP calls on motor manufacturers to democratize safety for all cars worldwide by 2020 Millions of new cars sold in middle and low income countries fail to meet the UN’s basic safety standards for front and side impacts revealed international automotive safety watchdog Global NCAP today (10). Speaking at the UN in Geneva during…