Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Fancy Crash Testing a Brand New Car ?

I was lucky to be invited by The Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) on the 10th of January 2013  to witness their ASEAN New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Crash Test programme on a Perodua Myvi recently at its PC 3 Crash Test facility in Tiang Dua, Ayer Molek,Melaka.

The event was attended by many interested parties, including vehicle manufacturers (OEMs) & visiting road safety officials.
Khairil Anwar-head of PC3 in NCAP,Tiang Dua,Melaka.
This particular day’s crash test which was the 7th New Car assessment program done by the PC 3 laboratory - the first crash test lab in South East Asia headed by Mr. Khairil Anwar Abu Kassim. 
The specially built crash testing facility

The aim of the laboratory is to rate the safety performance and crash test viability of these cars which are sold in the Malaysian and South East Asian markets. 

In order to provide better safety assessment of these cars, aspects such as Car Body protection to vehicle occupants, breach impact and other safety methodologies are tested and a star rating system provided to each car that undergoes the Crash test.












The aim of the test is to replicate the impact of a vehicle @ 40% offset position with a tolerance level of (+-1) with an accuracy level of within 20 mm of the barrier.
The Malaysian NCAP by MIROS is one of several crash test laboratories in the world and amongst the top 10 within the field.


Each Crash Test Dummy replicates 36 injury points in the Human body !

These cars  and the Crash test dummies inside are impacted at a speed of 64km per hour against a specially prepared wall that has high speed recording cameras that allows sensitive measurements and data to be recorded that will provide the engineers with vital information on the impacted vehicle at the moment of impact. 
A previous car that was purpose crashed to test the safety rating

It was an eye opening situation to visually feast your eyes on the point of impact of a vehicle travelling at this very slow speed (for me?) The damage that was received by the car was terrible and the outcome on it's crash test passengers even more horrible !

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What is a 'HINDU' ?

In 1995, Chief Justice P. B. Gajendragadkarwas quoted in anIndian Supreme Court ruling:

When we think of the Hindu religion, unlike other religions in the world, the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet; it does not worship any one god; it does not subscribe to any one dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow any one set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion orcreed. It may broadly be described as away of life and nothing more.

Common Misunderstandings on Hinduism

Vedanta (and all Hinduism) is entirely monistic, believing only in the all-pervading world-soul, Brahman, rather than a personal God

This advaita philosophy is certainly popular, and offers a simple explanation of the many deities. Nonetheless, many theologians have considered God to be a person. He is not merely an anthropomorphic representation, nor are the various deities and murtis simply incarnations or representations of an impersonal Supreme.

Thus Hinduism includes both monism and monotheism. It is misleading to call the Abrahamic religions,"the monotheistic traditions," implying that monotheism is absent from the Eastern traditions. Vedanta includes many monotheistic schools. They may accept the existence of many gods and goddesses, but strongly emphasizes the pre-eminence of the Supreme Deity.

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