In April this year, it was reported that the idea to revive the National Runcap (Russian New Car Assessment Program) car safety rating is not forgotten, and now new details have appeared. According to Autoreva, the RUNCAP committee has already addressed the domestic and foreign automakers with the question of whether they are ready to participate in crash tests in 2025.
Attempts to resurrect RunCap were undertaken at the end of the last decade. The crash tests according to the national standard were carried out by the joint efforts of Rosstandart, by us, MADI and “Author”: cars were divided on a barrier with a 40 percent overlap at a speed of 56 kilometers per hour-this technique was developed on the basis of an accident statistics. The rating included assessments of the effectiveness of the automatic emergency braking system (SAET), as well as the safety of vehicles in various collisions.
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However, it was not possible to restore Runcap fully-in 2020, the pandemic of coronavirus began, due to which the tests were paused, in 2022-his own, and this was followed by the restructuring of the Russian automobile market, when the Western auto manufacturers left, and Chinese stamps came in their place.
Now, work on the restart of the national standard is transferred to the active phase. “The RUNCAP committee has already sending requests to Russian automobile companies and Russian representatives of foreign car manufacturers about the degree of readiness for their participation in the RUNCAP rating in 2025 and intentions to contribute to the safety of the Road of the Russian Federation,” the statement of Author’s statement said.
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