“Making safer cars is relatively easy compared to ensuring people to buy safe cars,” said the ASEAN NCAP Secretary-General while meeting at his office on 3 July 2015. “A few years back and today still, pricing plays a major factor when purchasing a car, yet safety concerns are growing especially in Malaysia and Thailand,” he…

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…