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| | Two thirds of all newly registered passenger cars in Germany equipped with ESP® |
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date: Aug 27th 2005 15:46
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67 percent of all newly registered passenger cars in Germany in 2004 had already been equipped with the Electronic Stability Program (ESP®).
As could be shown by a Bosch study, this is a major increase by more than 20 percent in comparison to the 55 percent equipment rate in 2003. Several studies confirm the high effectiveness of the active safety system when it comes to reducing the risk of an accident. They indicate that a comprehensive installation of ESP® has the capacity of reducing the number of so-called driver accidents with severe bodily injury by up to 50 percent. The European Union has made a commitment to halve the number of fatal road accidents over the period from 2001 through 2010. ESP® is an effective and furthermore available system which can contribute to reach this ambitious goal , said Herbert Hemming, responsible for sales in the Bosch Division Chassis Systems Control. Bosch was the worldwide first supplier to produce ESP® in 1995.
The reason for this major increase in the ESP® installation rate by 12 percentage points over 2003 is the strong growth of standard equipment of the safety system in the large-selling lower medium-sized class of cars. The share of cars sold with ESP® in this class increased from 60 to now 83 percent. ESP® has already become standard in the high-end and luxury class, now it is heading this way also in the medium class. For compact cars, the share grew three fold from six percent in 2003 to 19 percent, but remains at a low level in absolute figures. In this class, ESP® is mostly merely available as optional equipment and rare actively requested. A higher installation rate in this class of cars would greatly affect the number of serious accidents in Germany and cause an even further reduction of them , Hemming showed himself convinced.
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