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New Delhi, <keyword id="70910" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hyundai-motor" source="Orion">Hyundai Motor</keyword> India on Tuesday said all its models in the country would now come with six airbags as standard. The automaker also announced that it has decided for voluntary participation in the recently introduced Bharat NCAP with 3 models to begin with, and more models to follow. Under the Bharat NCAP programme, car manufacturers can voluntarily offer their vehicles tested as per the Automotive Industry Standard (AIS) 197. Based on the performance of the car in the tests, the vehicle will be awarded star ratings on a scale of 0-5, for adult occupants (AOP) and child occupants (COP). Potential car customers can refer to these star ratings to compare the safety standards of different vehicles and accordingly make their purchase decision. The carmaker also announced that its mid sized sedan Verna has received a five-star rating in adult and child occupant protection by Global NCAP. <keyword id="596" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hyundai" source="Orion">Hyundai</keyword> Motor India MD &amp; CEO Unsoo Kim said safety for all is the company's utmost priority. "We have been benchmark creators in standardisation of vehicle safety features. Now, we are elated to announce the standardisation of six airbags across all models and all variants," he added. Hyundai Motor India COO Tarun Garg said with rising road network and increase in speed limits it is natural to upgrade the cars. Taking a big leap in the safety journey, the company has now decided to standardise six airbags in all models and all variants, he noted. The automaker is also looking to enhance ADAS (advanced driver-assistance system) and connected features across its entire product range, Garg said.

Hyundai Motor India says all its vehicles to come with 6 airbags

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6355174" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ford">Ford</keyword> recalled nearly 800,000 Explorer SUVs that were made between 2013 and 2017 due to crash risk.</li><li>The company also recalled select 2020 and 2021 <keyword id="1587234" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Lincoln-Aviator">Lincoln Aviator</keyword> and F-350 Super Duty models.</li><li>Six allegations of injury have been connected to a potential defect in the <keyword id="521520" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ford-Explorer">Ford Explorer</keyword>.</li></ul>Ford <a href="https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2021/07/16/ford-motor-company-three-safety-recalls.html">issued</a> three safety <keyword id="116652" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Recalls">recalls</keyword> on Friday, impacting its Explorer, Lincoln Aviator, and F-350 Super Duty <keyword id="1139145" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="pickup-truck">pickup truck</keyword>.The <keyword id="54643" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="recall">recall</keyword> covers over 850,000 vehicles which were identified as having increased risks of crash or fire. In a press release, Ford said it was recalling nearly 800,000 Ford Explorer models that were made between 2013 and 2017 due to a malfunction that could significantly diminish steering control and increase the probability of a car crash. Drivers of the SUV that have been impacted by the defect may notice "a clunk noise, unusual handling, or a misaligned rear wheel." The company said that six allegations of injury have been connected to the issue.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gm-ford-beating-tesla-stock-analysts-explain-why-this-year-2021-7">How Ford, GM, and VW overcame skeptical investors and unseated Tesla as the auto industry's hottest stocks</a>The majority of the impacted vehicles are in North America and in locations that experience cold weather, high humidity, as well as the use of road salt.The recall also covers about 35,000 2020 and 2021 models of the Ford F-350 Super Duty that have a 6.7-liter engine. The car models have been identified as at an elevated risk of a crash, though the company said no injuries related to the pickup truck's potential for a disconnected driveshaft have been reported to date.Similarly, the 2020 and 2021 Lincoln Aviator's recall has not been connected to any injuries. Though, Ford is recalling over 40,000 of the <keyword id="20632" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Cars">cars</keyword> that are equipped with a 3.0-liter gas engine, due to fire risk caused by the interaction between the A/C pulley and the car's battery.Ford will notify customers of the individual recalls by mid-August and dealers will inspect the vehicles for the potential defects. The vehicles are some of many products that Ford has recalled in the past year. Last month, <a href="https://www.insider.com/ford-recalls-12-million-explorer-suvs-for-suspension-issue-2019-6">Ford recalled 1.2 million Explorers</a> for a suspension issue. In May, the car company <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-explorer-suv-recall-roof-rail-cover-pins-2021-5">recalled over 600,000 of the SUVs</a> due to concerns the SUVs roof rail could spontaneously detach.A few months prior, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-to-recall-26-million-vehicles-in-the-us-to-replace-takata-airbags-2021-3">Ford recalled 2.6 million vehicles</a> due to airbag issues. At the time, the company anticipated the recall would cost about $610 million. A Ford spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

Ford is recalling nearly 800,000 Explorers, as well as its Lincoln Aviator and F-350 Super Duty pickup truck. Find out if your vehicle was impacted.

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Equestrian racing isn't quite as dangerous as racing in a car. You don't go nearly as fast. But still, if you mess up, you can find yourself trampled by a powerful, 1,000-pound animal.After a series of equestrian deaths between 2007 and 2008, sports officials implemented new safety standards, <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/08/olympic-equestrians-vests-double-airbags-airbags/amp/">according to Wired</a>.&#xa0;One popular new option were vests that aren't&#xa0;just for padding, but inflate&#xa0;like airbags upon impact to create cushioning for the athletes."When we started putting them on riders people were laughing," Lee Middleton, the owner of air jacket manufacturer Point Two, <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/08/olympic-equestrians-vests-double-airbags-airbags/amp/">told Wired</a>. "Riders don't want to wear an air bag. They want to be as light as possible."Point Two worked on their design, and they ended up with a vest that works like one giant airbag, spanning the full length of the torso. If you pull on the vest's lanyard, an attached CO2 canister can inflate it in under 60 milliseconds.You can see a demonstration on how the vest works below (starting around the 2:50 mark):<div></div>Of course, not all riders are convinced, but the fact remains that the vest airbags actually work.The paramedic team that saved Laura Collett, who suffered a six-day coma in 2013 after her horse fell on her, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/sport/equestrian/23466911">credited her inflatable vest</a>. And Oliver Townend credited his air jacket when he survived a horse falling onto him in the 2010&#xa0;Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event."I walked out of hospital the next day, where otherwise I would be in a box or in America for a month," <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/sports/24airbag.html?_r=0">Townend told The New York Times</a>.But air jackets still have some issues. They impede mobility, which can make it harder to scramble to safety after a fall. And if it accidentally inflates, it can mess up a rider during a fall - costing crucial milliseconds in the Olympics.Still, they're effective. In the rash of equestrian deaths between 2007 and 2008, <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/08/olympic-equestrians-vests-double-airbags-airbags/amp/">most of them were from a rotational fall, according to Wired</a> - <a href="https://equineink.com/2008/07/18/what-is-a-rotational-fall-and-how-can-they-be-prevented/">in which a horse crashes into a fence, somersaults, and then crashes into&#xa0;its unhitched&#xa0;rider</a>.For an impact like that, an airbag helps. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-out-pizza-miami-2016-8">A Miami restaurant makes inside-out pizza</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="13eGgzNTE67H1yGn5zHpf8hDz0sQKAm4" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Some Olympic equestrian vests also double as airbags

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Teenagers drive the least safe vehicles despite being the riskiest drivers on the road, according to a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. </li><li>Teens tend to drive older and smaller vehicles, which have higher fatality rates than their newer, larger counterparts. </li><li>Nearly two-thirds of teens killed behind the wheel from 2013 to 2017 were driving cars six to 15 years old, the study found. </li></ul>With little experience in the driver's seat, it's not particularly surprising that teens make up the riskiest driving demographic — they crash four times more often than adult drivers relative to how many miles they drive, despite spending less time on the road.And teens' well-being behind the wheel isn't helped by the fact that they often aren't driving the safest vehicles, a new study suggests. The <a href="https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/teens-are-the-riskiest-drivers-but-they-drive-the-least-safe-vehicles">study</a>, compiled by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, concluded that teenagers tend to drive older, smaller vehicles, which are more likely to be involved in a fatal incident than their larger, newer counterparts. More than 25% of teens killed behind the wheel between 2013 and 2017 were driving small, mini, or micro cars, while close to two-thirds were driving vehicles six to 15 years old, the study found. On the other hand, less than 4% of 15-to-17-year-old drivers killed during that period were in a vehicle less than three years old. "It's understandable that parents don't want to shell out big bucks for their teen's first car, and they probably don't realize how much safer a newer, larger vehicle is," Rebecca Weast, the <keyword id="259636" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="IIHS">IIHS</keyword> researcher who authored the study, said in a statement. "Small vehicles don't protect as well in a crash, and older vehicles are less likely to be equipped with essential safety equipment."Small vehicles, even relatively new ones, have much higher driver-fatality rates than larger ones, another recent <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-vehicles-small-cars-death-fatalities-fatal-crash-ratings-2020-6">IIHS study</a> found. Their lower mass makes them fare badly in collisions with large vehicles, and their shorter front ends provide less driver protection.IIHS safety ratings for small vehicles may also be inflated because the organization's crash tests evaluate how well a vehicle fares in a collision with a stationary object, which in turn means crashing a car against its own weight. That means a Honda Civic is rated for how it'll fare against another car of its size and weight, not a large SUV or pickup. Newer cars also include advanced safety features like side airbags and electronic stability control. To help teens and parents choose safer vehicles, the IIHS partnered with Consumer Reports to develop a list of the safest and most affordable cars for teens. Check out the list <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-used-cars-teens-sales-buy-cheap-reliable-safe-suvs-2020-7">here</a>.

Teens are the riskiest drivers yet own the least safe vehicles — and choosing a safer car comes down to 2 main factors

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Editorial note: This story was originally reported by Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein and Ben Klayman of Reuters. Business Insider has added additional contextual detail about the Takata recall. 
The dusty, industrial town of Ciudad Frontera, Mexico, has moved from the far reaches of the global auto supply chain to the front lines of an investigation into why air bags from Takata Corp are blowing up with lethal force in accidents.
The Takata plant there has been confirmed as the source of defective air bags made in 2001 and 2002 and again around 2012, according to recall records, automakers and regulators. In 2006, the factory blew up, driving home for workers and residents the volatility and risk of the explosive compound at the core of Takata's air bags.
Airbag manufacturers such as Takata favor low-humdity regions to assemble airbags, due the the risks associated with inflator propellant. Prior to this week, the massive Takata recall in the U.S. had been regionally focused on southern states and territories such as Puerto Rico. 
But on Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) expanded its recall demand of major automakers to be nationwide.
A whopping 17 million vehicles with Takata airbags have been recalled globally. In the U.S., 11 million vehicles are now under recall.
Additionally, NHTSA has ordered Tokyo-based Takata Corp to submit a wide array of records, including those pertaining to manufacturing controls at the Mexican plant, as part of an investigation into why its air bags have shot shrapnel at drivers in five fatal accidents from Oklahoma to Malaysia.
On Thursday, executive from Takata and Honda are scheduled to testify before Congress. Apart from automakers and Takata, which controls over 20 percent of the global airbag market, questions are now being raised about the governments lack of urgency regarding a recall whose details are disturbing. 
The Takata recall follows on the heels of two other massive recalls in recent years: the 2010 Toytoa recall for issues related to vehicles allegedly accelerating out of control; and the more recent General Motors recall, for a widespread problem with ignition switches that can disable airbags in certain cars.
All five of the Takata victims - including three in the last 14 months - were hit by shrapnel from air bags in Honda vehicles. At least another 160 injury claims involving cars from several automakers have been reported to NHTSA, according to Reuters.
Interviews with 21 former and current Takata workers and consultants, along with company presentations and email reviewed by Reuters reveal the pressure inside the Japanese supplier to ramp up output and drive down costs for inflators - the mechanism that triggers air bags to deploy in a fraction of a second after a crash.
The accounts include the concerns of managers that workers broke quality rules to boost output. It isn't clear whether the productivity pressures and quality issues they describe led to specific accidents. But the portrait they draw suggests that top executives at the company were not fully aware of what was going on at the foreign factories that churned out millions of air bags. So far, the Takata problems have led to the recall of over 16 million vehicles worldwide.
"We are highly focused on cooperating with NHTSA and the (U.S.) government investigation," Takata's U.S. spokesman Alby Berman said in response to questions sent by email.
The NHTSA administrative order requires Takata to supply documents and answer questions under oath related to any problems in producing air bag inflators. The order was prompted in part by an Oct. 17 Reuters report detailing production and quality problems at the Mexico plant. The company has until Dec. 1 to comply. In addition to the regulatory probe, Takata faces a criminal investigation by U.S. prosecutors.The investigations come as the Mexico plant gears up to make parts needed to replace millions of air bags in the ongoing vehicle recalls.
'WE'RE SCARED'
On the evening of March 30, 2006 Takata's Mexican air bag factory exploded a year into its run as the company's main inflator production point. The series of blasts blew out windows on houses a kilometer away and threw up fireballs as workers and residents fled to escape injury, witnesses say.
Remarkably, residents and workers say, there were no injuries. Hundreds of workers inside the factory that evening all managed to evacuate, some by climbing over a factory fence because a gate had been mistakenly left shut.
Takata never announced the exact cause of the 2006 explosion, workers there at the time said. An official at the fire department, where Takata has donated trucks, said he had no records from that time.
Some workers said the blast was fueled by bunkers of ammonium nitrate stored next to the plant. Takata air bags are inflated using ammonium nitrate, an explosive propellant that is encased in a canister to make an inflator.
Josefina Vargas lives next door to the Takata factory. She said the first sign of trouble from the factory was a thin line of smoke visible from the sidewalk in front of her house. Vargas, 52, who did not work at Takata, remembers her shock as explosions threw fiery debris almost to her feet as she sat outside her house. Vargas and others fled by foot and by car.
"We're scared," Vargas told Reuters in recounting the explosion from her home where she sells tortillas and cookies. "When we hear a sound now, we think it's the plant."
Takata's Berman said the company's safety training had "allowed for the successful evacuation of thousands of employees within a few minutes of the discovery of the fire and prevented a possible loss of life." He said the company had put new safety policies in place after the accident.
Alejandro Perez, a former Takata facility manager, stayed at work for four days straight after the accident, taking short breaks to go home and nap or shower, he said.
The company offered workers who returned and stayed on the job special incentives, Perez and other workers say. Takata raffled off televisions, refrigerators and cars, and even held Easter services at the plant for workers on the job that April 16. 
Takata managers were proud of the comeback. They marked the rebuilding with a commemorative in-house coffee table book with pictures of the blast, and baseball caps stitched with the exact date and time of the first explosion. The company took a $21 million charge as it prepared for an IPO in November of that year.
Within a month, Takata had resumed production, fast enough so that customers such as Honda Motor Co., Ford Motor Co. didn't have to shut down their own factories due to lack of parts. Rival Autoliv also stepped up its output to make up for what Takata could not supply, the companies said at the time.
Demand for airbags in the current auto market is high, as automakers surge toward sales figures not seen since the pre-recession peak for the industry. In 2014, the U.S. auto market in on pace to see 17 million new cars and trucks sold.
Takata has protested NHTSA's demand for a nationwide recall, on the grounds that fixing potentially defect airbags outside the initial recall region will limit supplies of replacement components that could be used in places where the airbags are more likely to malfunction. 
UNRELENTING PRESSURE
On the ground, the pressure to restart and make up for lost production was unrelenting, especially from American managers who had been flown to Mexico, said Perez, the former facility manager. He was laid off at the plant in 2008. Other workers also said pressure remained high.
Takata workers said they had to make a quota of inflators - sometimes more than 200 per hour. "If you didn't make it, you would be behind and they wouldn't pay you a productivity bonus," said Jose Sanchez, 42, a former worker who made inflators at Takata from 2004 to 2010.
In 2010 and 2011, the Monclova plant was consistently behind quota in making a new kind of driver's-side air bag inflator. In an effort to crack down, supervisors used security cameras to catch workers on a line "fooling around," and apparently engaged in conversation rather than making inflators, an email circulated to staff that included still images from a camera shows. Takata's Berman said security cameras at the plant were there to prevent theft and not intended to monitor workers.
Around the same time, a worker was also cutting corners by trying to "rework" or fix defective parts on the inflator assembly line. That would have made it easier for them to meet output quotas. But Takata prohibited that practice in order to reduce the chances of bad parts being shipped to automakers, according to an email. Inflators identified as defective were supposed to be placed in a separate, red bin and then examined and repaired if possible by other workers, according to former workers.
Guillermo Apud, a supervisor at the plant, scolded other employees about this problem in a May 2011 email reviewed by Reuters. "Rework on the line is PROHIBITED!!!!" he said. "We can't have leaders/materials people/operators REWORKING material left and right without ANY control, this is why we have defect upon defect," his email, translated from Spanish, said. "We need to change NOW!"
Apud declined to comment. Berman said Apud was acting to reinforce company safety guidelines after finding an employee had improperly reworked an inflator. "The email is an example of the manager performing his supervisory responsibility and enforcing company quality controls," he said.
In 2012, Takata workers at the Mexico plant put the wrong part into inflators being readied for shipment, according to documents Takata and automakers filed with NHTSA. More than 350,000 vehicles from three different car makers were later recalled for that defect. The mistake was possible because parts bins were kept too close together, the company told regulators in Japan.
The mistake was not discovered until after a lawsuit was filed over an October 2013 accident when Brandi Owens, then 25, hit another car in stop-and-go traffic while driving a new GM Chevrolet Cruze. The Cruze's air bag exploded and hit Owens so hard it blinded her in the left eye, she said in the lawsuit filed in April 2014. Her case prompted a recall two months later, in June. Owens settled with Takata and General Motors Co on undisclosed terms in August.
A fatal accident just after that June vehicle recall illustrates the complexity of the problem facing automakers and safety investigators. Takata said a defective inflator from its now-shuttered plant in the U.S. state of Georgia was installed in a 2003 Honda City assembled in Thailand and sold in Malaysia.
On July 27, Law Suk Leh was driving that car when she hit another vehicle in the Malaysian town of Sibu on Borneo island. Law, who was in the final stages of pregnancy, was killed by a "severe puncture wound" to the neck when she was hit by a metal fragment after the car's air bag blew apart, Malaysian police said. Honda revealed details of the death last week in announcing a recall of another 170,000 vehicles to replace their air bags.
BOOMING DEMAND
For Takata, building the factory in Mexico in 2000 would enable it to help meet booming demand for air bags with cheaper labor, projections prepared for executives show.
By moving inflator production from two plants in the United States to Mexico, Takata saved $70 million in labor costs over five years to 2006, an internal company presentation shows, dropping the labor cost for making an inflator from $2 to about 75 cents. Takata's automaker customers benefited: the cost to them fell by more than 20 percent to less than $20 each, according to the presentation.
Mexico's auto industry has benefitted greatly from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has enabled the country to position itself as source of low-cost labor in close proximity to the world's most dynamic market for automobiles: the United States.
By spring 2005, Takata's big bet on the Mexican factory appeared to be paying off. Workers at the Monclova plant, as it was known in the company, posed for a commemorative photo, raising both hands in the air in a banzai salute.
Soon afterward, Takata closed its factory in La Grange, Georgia, southwest of Atlanta. Takata had been reducing inflator production there and at a second U.S. plant in remote Moses Lake, Washington for four years, records show.
Worker morale had suffered at the plant in Moses Lake, built on the site of a former U.S. military base, workers there told Reuters. By 2000, a new management team prioritized meeting output quotas and enforced overtime as demand for U.S. cars and SUVs soared, former workers say. "We just burned people out," said one former worker, who like others asked not to be named. In 2002, the plant laid off 100 workers and sent more production to Mexico, media reports at the time said.
A series of mistakes by workers in handling ammonium nitrate at the La Grange, Georgia and Mexico plants between 2000 and 2002 left the explosive compound exposed to dangerous levels of humidity, Takata told regulators in the United States and Japan.
Takata says inflators could be susceptible to rupture if exposed to moisture or extreme humidity. The defect in Law's airbag in the Malaysian accident was caused by humid conditions at the Georgia plant, Takata and Honda said.
It is unclear how much Takata's headquarters in Tokyo knew about the problems at its inflator plants. Takata did not dispatch permanent staff from headquarters to the Mexican plant as it ramped up output, workers say.
A Takata safety auditor dispatched from the United States inspected the Mexican inflator plant in May 2011 and found problems in handling the volatile ammonium nitrate. His audit report, seen by Reuters, faulted the plant for not closing bags of the compound tightly enough and for storing scrapped or contaminated propellant near good material, risking mix-ups. He said in his report he would not send the audit to Takata's headquarters in Tokyo.
Shigehisa Takada, the grandson of the founder, now chairman and chief executive, has said the company made a mistake by allowing too much autonomy to its local managers in North America during a period of rapid growth. Takata acquired at least six companies in the United States and Germany between 1989 and 2012.
"Back then, the U.S. markets were expanding very rapidly, and we could not see everything that was happening there," according to a recording of Takada's speech to a closed shareholders meeting in June. It was his most recent public appearance.
(1 US dollar = 116.5800 Japanese yen)
(Additional reporting by Yoko Kubota in Tokyo, Gabriela Lopez in Ciudad Frontera and Paul Lienert in Detroit.; Writing by Kevin Krolicki, editing by Bill Tarrant and Peter Hirschberg.)

A Takata Airbag Plant In Mexico Blew Up In 2006

<ul><li>The MG ZS electric vehicle is now available for purchase in 5 cities across India.</li><li>Customers who had pre-booked their ZS EV will get a discount of ₹1 lakh.</li><li>MG is offering a 5-year warranty on the car. Customers also get free fast charging at MG dealerships for a limited time period.</li></ul>MG Motor today launched its second car in India, the ZS EV. The variants Excite and Exclusive are priced at₹20.88 lakhs and ₹23.88 lakh, respectively. The British automaker who had a successful launch of MG Hector, is now doling out many attractive offers with the EV cars. Customers who have booked the car before January 17 will get a discount of ₹1 lakh. It is also offering a special warranty plan called MG eShield. This plan offers 5-year manufacturer's warranty for unlimited kilometers and 8-year or 1,50,000-kilometer warranty on the battery. The car which will be assembled at its Halol plant in Gujarat, is available for order in five cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. “The ZS EV is a globally-successful product that operates at the intersection of an EV’s sustainability, an SUV’s practicality, and a sports car’s performance. It comes with best-in-class features and tech capabilities at a compelling price point. We are confident that this unprecedented value proposition will incentivise more consumers across India to go electric,” said Rajeev Chaba, President and MD – MG Motor India. The ZS EV’s running cost is pegged at ₹1 per km, as per electricity rates in Delhi-NCR. The carmaker also said that it has already received 2,800 bookings in 27 days after it announced it in December. “The number of bookings received for the ZS EV outpaces the total number of EV cars sold in India in 2019,” the press release says. Windmill inspires wheels The MG ZS EV can go from 0-100kmph in 8.5 seconds. It does not look radically different from regular cars, and that is probably by design. It has windmill-inspired wheels, projector headlamps with daytime running lights, and keyless entry/lock. Internally, the ZS EV has an 8-inch panel that helps manage the car. It comes with six airbags, 3-point seat belts for all passengers, a PM2.5 filter and a sunroof. The engine is rated at 141 BHP and 353Nm torque. MG claims that the ZS EV offers a range of up to 340km. MG has also set up fast chargers at its dealerships in the five cities mentioned above. These fast chargers can charge the ZS EV from 0-80% in 50 minutes. Buyers can charge their cars for free at these dealerships for a limited time period. Apart from this, MG will install a 7.4kW AC charger at the home or office of the car owners. This charger can fully replenish the battery of the ZS EV in 6-8 hours. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/mg-motors-new-car-mg-zs-ev-is-5g-ready-and-other-tech-features/articleshow/72342064.cms">MG Motors’ 5G ready electric car will send low battery-over speeding alerts – and even understand Indian accent</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/8-ideas-for-budget-2020-to-make-ev-batteries-cheaper/articleshow/73302145.cms">8 ideas for Budget 2020 to make EV batteries cheaper</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/budget-2020-auto-industry-expectations-range-from-gst-cuts-to-another-ev-boost/articleshow/73250322.cms">Budget 2020: Auto industry expectations range from GST cuts to another EV boost</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Fiat Chrysler published its annual US sales report on Tuesday.</li><li>The automaker sold four <keyword id="1562335" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dodge-Viper">Dodge Viper</keyword>s in 2020, according to the report. The <keyword id="5002152" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="dodge">Dodge</keyword> Viper was discontinued in 2017.</li><li>The automaker also sold three Jeep Patriots, despite the car being discontinued at the end of 2016.</li></ul>As automakers roll out their end-of-year sales reports, it's always entertaining to keep an eye out for fun oddities. Here's one from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/fiat-chrysler">Fiat Chrysler</a>, which managed to sell four (4) <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/dodge-viper">Dodge Vipers</a> in 2020 - a car that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dodge-viper-production-end-2016-6">had been discontinued three years prior</a>.<keyword id="295132" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="FCA">FCA</keyword> released its <a href="https://media.fcanorthamerica.com/newsrelease.do?id=22426&amp;mid=1id=1">fourth-quarter and full-year sales results</a> on Tuesday. Only the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeep-gladiator-review-car-reviews-specs-price-truck-pickup-wrangler-2020-6">Jeep Gladiator pickup truck</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alfa-romeo-stelvio-suv-review-photos-features-verdict-2020-4">Alfa Romeo Stelvio SUV</a> managed to post positive sales in 2020 over 2019, but the most interesting tidbit of information present, by far, was the fact that the automaker managed to sell four Vipers.<div type="image" title="FCA 2020 sales results" height="1113" width="1068" msid="80200206" hostid="261"></div>It's not totally unheard of for dealers to keep selling cars after they've been discontinued. Sometimes, dealers will buy cars from the manufacturers but they won't sell them immediately, holding onto them as centerpieces or demo vehicles. This very thing <a href="https://jalopnik.com/we-found-12-of-the-last-new-lexus-lfas-for-sale-in-amer-1797718447">happened</a> with a handful of 2012 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/listen-to-the-lexus-lfa-supercars-engine-2013-1">Lexus LFA</a>s showing up as unsold at dealerships in 2017. It's unclear which dealers sold the Vipers, but it's heartening - yet not surprising - to know there are still new ones out there that people want to buy. This is because the Dodge Viper was one of the most iconic American muscle cars ever made. It started life in the early 1990s with an 8.0-liter V10 engine, a six-speed manual transmission, a canvas roof, no outside door handles, no air conditioning, no airbags, no traction control, and no ABS. In other words, a perfect vehicle.<div type="image" title="2016 Dodge Viper" height="1667" width="2500" msid="80200209" hostid="261"></div>Famously, most Viper models had side-exit exhaust pipes located just beneath their doors. As exhaust pipes do, these tended to get hot after extended periods of driving and owners could burn their ankles and calves on them upon exiting the vehicle if they weren't careful. Again, this was a feature and not a bug.By the time <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-this-is-the-2013-srt-viper-2012-4">the fifth-generation Viper</a> rolled around in 2013 - the final generation - the car was actually quite refined. True, the engine had been enlarged to 8.4 liters and was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2014-srt-viper-ta-is-built-for-the-track-2013-3">making a claimed 640 horsepower</a>, but it had just as much technology on it as other modern sports cars: electronic stability control, ABS, and traction control.<div type="image" title="2016 Dodge Viper" height="1667" width="2500" msid="80200210" hostid="261"></div>In 2017, the Viper officially ended production because it could not meet new safety standards that took effect in September of that year. The Viper's low sales numbers probably didn't do it any favors, either. <a href="https://www.motortrend.com/news/dodge-viper-plant-shuts-august-31/">Motor Trend</a> reported in 2017 that just 630 Vipers were sold the year before.Not long after production ceased, the Viper's factory was <a href="https://jalopnik.com/the-dodge-viper-factory-will-be-turned-into-a-fiat-chry-1823996268">turned into</a> an FCA historic car storage facility. The very last Dodge Viper built was auctioned off along with the last Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and the pair <a href="https://jalopnik.com/the-very-last-dodge-demon-and-dodge-viper-just-went-for-1827112584">fetched $1 million</a>.At least the Viper wasn't FCA's worst seller of 2020. That award goes to the Ram Cargo Van (one sold) and the Jeep Patriot (three sold). The latter was discontinued at the end of 2016 and considerably less cool than the Viper.

Dodge sold 4 Vipers last year despite the iconic American muscle car being discontinued in 2017

The <a href="http://www.iihs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Insurance Institute for Highway Safety</a> crash-tests cars and determines safety ratings based on four factors: Measurements from dummies, survival space, airbags, and seat belt effectiveness. The IIHS is dedicated to preventing crashes and mitigating the damage they cause. The following is a transcript of the video.This is how crash safety ratings are determined. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is a non-profit. It is dedicated to preventing crashes and mitigating the damage they cause. It tests the most popular cars on the market. At the lab, workers drain the cars of fluids and replace the gas with a less volatile substance. The car is prepped with targets and inch tape. These are used to measure deformation during the crash. Cameras and dummies are placed in the car.Four things factor into the safety rating. Dummies. Sensors in the dummy measure the impact on the body. Measurements from vital organs matter the most. Greasepaint on the face, hands, and legs is used to determine if the dummy contacts any hard surfaces. Survival Space. Survival space refers to the occupant compartment of the car. The less this compartment is crushed the more likely the airbags and seat belts can do their jobs. Airbags and seat belts. Analysts review footage to see if airbags deploy fast enough. And note how well the seat belt keeps the dummy within the vehicle.The IIHS uses six crash tests to determine a car's safety rating. There are three frontal crash tests. A moderate impact. Two small impacts on the driver and passenger side. Frontal crashes are the most fatal. Side impact crash test. This test simulates being hit by a pickup truck or SUV. Roof strength test. Roof strength is essential to surviving a rollover. A vehicle should be able to withstand four times its weight and the roof should crush fewer than 5 inches. Whiplash test. The car's seat is set on a sled that simulates the impact of a rear-end collision. Readings from the dummies determine potential neck injuries. After all the tests are complete, a rating is assigned. Good, acceptable, marginal, poor. The IIHS awards multiple cars the Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick Plus each year. Any vehicle that meets the criteria will be awarded. Each year the IIHS changes the criteria for these awards. The IIHS recommends purchasing a car with the best safety ratings in your vehicle class and price range.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Subaru</div></div></div>For parents, the most important factor when buying a new car is almost always safety.There are a bunch of different things that can make a car safe. Accident avoidance features, tons of strategically mounted airbags, low rollover risk. The list goes on.These six cars are not only some of the safest family cars on the market today, but they also boast a number of other impressive features.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">US Department of <keyword id="34991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="transportation">Transportation</keyword></div></div></div>Crash rates for Tesla vehicles have plummeted 40% since Autopilot was first installed, according to a <a href="https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2016/INCLA-PE16007-7876.PDF" target="_blank">government report</a> released on Thursday.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released the report after <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/report-government-closing-tesla-autopilot-fatality-investigation-2017-1" target="_blank">closing its six-month investigation</a> into Tesla's first known Autopilot fatality. NHTSA did not find a safety defect in Tesla's Autopilot and is not issuing a recall.The report found that since Autosteer was installed in Tesla vehicles in 2015, Tesla crash rates have dropped by almost 40%. Autosteer is a flagship feature of Autopilot and keeps the car in its lane even when approaching curves.Tesla provided the Office of Defects Investigation with mileage and airbag deployment data for all 2014-2016 Model S and Model X vehicles equipped with Autopilot technology. The investigators used this data to calculate crash rates prior to and after Autopilot installation. It's good news for Tesla Autopilot, which has come under scrutiny in the past few months following the fatal accident in May. Joshua Brown, 40, was driving his 2015 Model S with Autopilot activated when he crashed into a trailer making a left turn in front of his car.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">National Transportation Safety Board</div></div></div>Tesla wrote in a <a href="https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss" target="_blank">blog</a> post following the May accident that the Autopilot system did not notice <a href="https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss" target="_blank">"the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied."</a>The report said there was no Tesla Autopilot defect that caused the accident to occur. It found that Tesla Autopilot should not have been expected to detect traffic crossing in front of it and that there was ample time (7 seconds) for the driver to hit the brake before hitting the truck. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-how-self-driving-car-sees-road-2016-11">Tesla reveals how your self-driving car sees the road</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="U0Ym5yNzE6JVehzfvAL7o4lu7-8AEnZv" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FerrariCalifornia-rear.jpg">Wikipedia</a></div>Police in Japan said Monday they want to charge 10 drivers over a £2.6 million, multi-car pileup involving eight Ferraris, one Lamborghini and a Mercedes-Benz.
The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8934718/Astonishing-accident-involving-eight-Ferraris-worlds-most-expensive-car-crash.html">chain-reaction smash in December 2011</a> occurred when a convoy of expensive sports cars were on a freeway in Shimonoseki in western Japan, said Yamaguchi prefectural police official Shinji Tanaka.
The driver of the lead Ferrari lost control of his luxury ride and those behind the wheels of nine supercars and three other vehicles failed to apply their brakes in time.
One car driving on the opposite carriageway was also affected.
The Sports Nippon newspaper said around $4 million (£2.6 million) worth of damage was done. Media reports at the time branded it "the world's most expensive <keyword id="77938" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="car-crash">car crash</keyword>".
Police sent the case against a 61-year-old man and nine others to prosecutors last Thursday on suspicion of violating traffic laws.
The final decision on whether to charge the drivers rests with prosecutors.
Police say 10 drivers, aged between 38 and 61, were exceeding the speed limit or not paying enough attention to the road, Tanaka said.
At the time of the accident, television showed footage of the badly crumpled cars - most of them red - some with airbags deployed after a smash that left six people hurt but killed no one.
"It's rare to see a chain-reaction accident like this involving expensive cars," said Tanaka.
"Some of the drivers told us they didn't really know the specifications of their cars or just how powerful their acceleration was."
The drivers were on their way to a supercar event in Hiroshima.
Source: AFP

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