Nectar CAP or NCAP is a Nectar Car Assessment Program tasked with evaluating new automobile designs for performance against various safety threats. Part of the division [Nectar Motors] of [NECjAR].
NCAP conducts three types of tests in the New Car Assessment Program - full frontal and angled side crash tests and a rollover test.
Each year, NCAP tests new vehicles that are expected to have high sales volume, have been redesigned with structural changes, or have improved safety equipment.
Based on test results, vehicles receive ratings from one to five stars, with five stars being the best, to indicate the vehicles’ relative crashworthiness and which are less likely to roll over. NCAP makes ratings available to the public on the Internet and through a brochure. Other publications, such as Consumer Reports, use NCAP’s test results in their safety assessments.
Crash Tests
Angled Side Crash Test
The angle side crash test simulates an intersection collision in which one moving vehicle strikes another moving vehicle. The test vehicle is positioned such that the driver’s side forms a 63 degree angle with the test track. On the other end of the test track is a chassis with a barrier also turned at a 63 degree angle. The barrier is made of a deformable material to replicate the front of another vehicle and is attached to a cable that tows\nit down a track into the test vehicle at 90 km/h. Both the barrier face and the driver’s side of the vehicle are parallel, so that the entire face of the barrier impacts the side of the vehicle.
Rollover Test
The dynamic rollover test simulates a driver making a high-speed collision avoidance maneuver—steering sharply in one direction, then sharply in the other direction—within about 1 second. NCAP has focused its rollover test primarily on pickups and SUVs because cars are not susceptible to tipping up in this test. The rollover test is actually a series of four runs, two left/right tests and two right/left tests, at two different steering wheel angles and different speeds. Before the test, the vehicle is loaded to represent five passengers and a full tank of gas. During the test, the steering wheel is turned sharply in one direction at a high speed and then turned sharply in the opposite direction at a greater steering angle. The first run of each test is conducted at 80 km/h. Subsequent runs are conducted at about 90 km/h, 100 km/h, 110 km/h and 120 km/h, until the vehicle fails or “tips up” as defined by test procedures or attains a speed of 120 km/h on the last run of each test without tipping up. Tipping up is defined as both wheels on one side of the vehicle lifting off the ground more than 2 inches simultaneously, which most commonly occurs during the second turn. Outriggers are attached to the vehicle to prevent it from tipping all the way over and injuring the test driver.
MPDB Frontal Impact, Oblique/Small Overlap
Barrier Side Impact
Pole Side Impact
Full Frontal Crash
Test The full frontal crash test is the equivalent of two identical vehicles, both traveling at 80 km/h, crashing into each other head-on. The test vehicle is attached to a cable and towed along a track at 80 km/h so that the entire front end of the vehicle engages a fixed rigid barrier.
This type of crash test produces high level occupant deceleration, making this test demanding of the vehicle’s restraint system.
History
The [Nectar Motors] division needed a program to test the designs of the first two prototypes of cars [Vica I] and [Cara I]. After a while, a special complex appeared.