00:06So today we are at the Transport for New South Wales Crash Lab in Western Sydney,
00:12which is a facility that ANCAP uses to conduct crash tests. We engage with
00:17Transport for New South Wales to undertake the test for us and today
00:21we're doing a mobile progressive deformable barrier test which is our
00:25frontal offset test. ANCAP is the Australasian New Car Assessment Program and
00:35our role is to provide consumers with information about the comparable safety
00:39of vehicles that are on sale in the market today. We provide a simple zero to
00:44five star rating so that consumers can compare vehicles and understand the
00:49safety performance of those vehicles and understand what they're getting in terms
00:53of bang for buck when it comes to safety.
00:59So for the ANCAP test process we assess the vehicle's performance across a range of
01:05different pillars. There are four pillars adult occupant protection, child occupant
01:09protection, vulnerable road user protection and safety assist and a
01:14vehicle needs to score well across all four pillars to achieve the five star
01:18safety rating. The vehicle we're testing today is the Suzuki Swift which is a new
01:26model. It's been tested in Europe and ANCAP has undertaken some additional testing
01:32to be able to provide consumers with information about the safety rating of
01:36the Australian and New Zealand specified models.
01:42In the NPDB test which is conducted with a car and a trolley barrier both are travelling at 50
01:50kilometres an hour and they're 50% offset. So we're looking at the ability of the vehicle to
01:57protect the occupants inside it. There's a lot that goes into the ANCAP testing and
02:02assessment protocol. There's seven physical crash tests in four of those we completely destroy the
02:08vehicle and when we look at active safety tests or crash avoidance testing, there's
02:12over 600 scenarios that we look at.
02:24So what ANCAP is testing and its relationship to autonomous vehicles in the
02:29future is really the building blocks of that technology. So when you don't have a
02:33driver in the vehicle to override the car is going to have to take on that role
02:37itself. So really what we're looking at is what is going to form the basis of
02:41autonomous vehicles in the future.
02:48Our approach is two-pronged. We're not regulatory so it's not mandatory that
02:54manufacturers have a five-star safety rating or that they go through the
02:57program at all. But we encourage manufacturers to do better by scoring the
03:02cars and then providing information to them about how they can improve and we
03:07encourage consumers to look for a five-star vehicle and look for the latest
03:12date stamp. Each test that we do has a date stamp attached and that's the way you
03:16know how recently the vehicle's been tested and to what criteria. So we encourage
03:22consumers to look for the safest vehicle they can afford.
