Hyundai Veloster awarded with five-star rating for safety | Industry - Car News Feb 2012

17:06 Wednesday 15 Feb 2012

Car maker Hyundai has been awarded the highest commendation possible for car safety by EuroNCAP for the new Veloster.

The car has been awarded a five-star award for the security it offers its drivers. With this award, Hyundai has become one of the latest manufacturers to receive recognition for its dedication to safety.

The inclusion of a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) developed and engineered for the Veloster by Schrader Electronics (Europe’s leading producer of direct TPMS technology), has contributed to the safety of this top rated vehicle.

This specific system is considered highly important to road safety. From November 2012, the TPMS will actually become a legal requirement to be fitted to all new cars sold across Europe.

With well maintained and inflated tyres reducing road casualties and carbon emissions, it is hoped that the system will reduce road deaths and casualties. Tyre related road deaths in the UK in the last five years have reached 164. Plus, since correctly inflated tyres lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, the TPMS will also help the environment.

Two types of TPMS technology are currently available: direct and indirect systems.

While the direct system provides accurate and fast indication of a deflating tyre or tyres through wheel mounted sensors; the indirect system delivers information to the driver much more slowly and is reset by the user which leaves the system vulnerable to operator error and, if incorrectly set, a false sense of security.

The use of TPMS systems is, therefore, the ideal way to solve two problems in one go – making roads safer for both its users and friendlier for the environment.

Illegal, defective and under-inflated tyres were responsible for more than 1,210 road casualties in the UK during 2010 and the number of tyre-related deaths on UK roads in the last five years has reached 164.

“We believe that motorists purchasing a new car should have the safest products available on the market and a direct TPMS should be the system of choice,” said Alfonso Di Pasquale, Vice President of Business Development for Schrader Electronics, the world’s leading developer and producer of direct TPMS technologies.