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附 录Ⅰ 英文原文Evaluation standards and limit standard NCAPThis protocol has been developed jointly by TRL and Vehicle Safety Consultants Ltd., under contract to the UK Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions and International Testing respectively. The EuroNCAPprogramme is designed to provide a fair, meaningful and objective assessment of the impact performance of cars. It is intended to inform consumers, so providing an incentive to manufacturers as well as giving credit to those who excel at occupant or pedestrian protection. The tests used are based on those developed for legislation by the European Enhanced Vehicle safety Committee (EEVC), for frontal and side impact protection of car occupants and for the protection of pedestrians hit by the front of cars. No stylised test procedure fully reflects the protection provided by a car in the wide variety of accidents which occur on the roads. However, cars that perform well in these tests should provide better protection in accidents than cars which perform less well. No anthropometric dummies are available which can measure all the potential risks of injury to humans or assess protection for different sizes of occupant in different seating positions. To compensate for this, the assessment procedure takes account of other information related to occupant kinematics, interior contact points and vehicle structure. Economic constraints prevent the tests from being repeated, so to take account of vehicle and test variations takes account of actions have been taken: Manufacturers have been asked to compare the results from these tests with those from tests they may have conducted and to draw our attention to any anomalies they may find. They have also been requested to supply data from their own tests to us for comparison. Several manufacturers have supplied data for this purpose. Apart from considering the effects of test variation and identifying anomalies, no account of such data is taken in rating the cars a