European and American countries have mandatory standards for the use of child safety seats.

Although China has become the world's largest automotive market, the concept of driving safety has a huge gap with foreign countries. Especially in terms of child safety, the penetration rate is still relatively low. Recently, a survey conducted by the “Information Times” and Sohu Automobile on “Safety for Children” (hereinafter referred to as the “Survey”) showed that more than half of the owners not only did not have any child safety equipment on board but neither did they It is completely clear what the child car safety configuration includes.

Children's ride safety concept needs to be improved It is understood that the safety configuration for children's rides mainly includes child seat fixtures, height-adjustable seat belts, child safety locks, front passenger seat airbag lock devices, driver-controlled rear window glass, etc. . It is reported that a total of 654 valid votes were received in the survey. The results showed that only 69.1% of people pay attention to the safety configuration related to children's car ride when purchasing a car; only 35.6% of the car owners said that they have children's safety equipment on board and 10.7% still said it was not clear. In the understanding of children's safe ride configuration, only 14% said they all knew that 26.2% did not know the number of people. The rest said that they knew only part of it. In addition, children's safety equipment should be regarded as a standard car configuration. The proportion of investigators is as high as 90.53%. It can be seen that the position of children's ride safety in the minds of consumers is increasingly important.

Interestingly, when asked “how would you arrange for your ride when driving with children,” 45.7% of people chose the standard answer “put a special child safety seat and sit back”. However, there are still 32.9% of people who said they chose "children held by adults and sat in the back row." Surprisingly, as many as 12% of people choose to "children sitting in the back of their own seats and not wearing seat belts." From this data, we can easily see that many people’s awareness of children’s car safety is still relatively weak.

Calling for relevant mandatory standards in the industry Previously, media reported that Zhao Hang, director of the China Automotive Technology and Research Center ("China National Automotive Research"), disclosed that the National Compulsory Standard for Children's Safety Seats and Related Products submitted by China National Automobile Development Co., Ltd. "("Forced") has been approved by relevant departments and will be formally implemented on July 1 this year. This standard includes the technical requirements of the seat itself, all devices that are forcibly installed on the vehicle for sale, and the installation of the ISO FIX anchoring system. Once introduced, the access threshold for the production enterprise will increase. However, as of now, we have not yet waited for the introduction of relevant mandatory standards.

Data shows that the use of child safety seats can reduce child mortality in car crashes by 70%, while the use of child safety seats in China is less than 0.1%. In China, more than 18,500 children between the ages of 0 and 14 die each year from traffic accidents, averaging more than 50 per day. The mortality rate is 2.5 times that of Europe. From this we can see that it is imperative to strengthen the concept of children's car safety, and we hope that the implementation of the “compulsory national standard” will come soon.

The reporter observes that children's car safety needs attention. Studies have shown that the main cause of child car crashes at present is due to incorrect riding habits. It is not true that Chinese parents often ride children, use adult safety belts, do not use any restraints, or children ride in co-pilot positions, etc. Unfortunately, there are still a few people who have made this survey. Wrong choice.

Although the concept of car safety for Chinese consumers is not strong enough, there are no mandatory regulations for child safety seats in China. However, this is not the reason why car manufacturers use children's safety as a “preferred item” for deduction. Fortunately, we have seen configurations such as child safety locks and child safety seat interfaces on many mid-level and above models. In a word, safety is a responsibility. Children's ride safety needs the whole society to pay attention together and promote the introduction of relevant national standards and regulations as soon as possible.