{"id":101,"date":"2008-11-27T01:27:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T01:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-11-27T01:27:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T01:27:26","slug":"transport-canada-crash-test-video-continues-battle-against-lsvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/27\/transport-canada-crash-test-video-continues-battle-against-lsvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport Canada Crash Test Video Continues Battle Against LSVs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transport Canada posted video footage<\/a> from recent crash tests of the ZENN and what appears to be a GEM model to bolster their contention that LSVs represent a safety problem when mixing with regular vehicles on public roads. Transport Canada states that:<\/p>\n

A low-speed vehicle may look like a car, but it is not a car. It is not required to meet the large number of safety standards (up to 40) that a regular passenger car must meet. The low speed vehicle class was originally intended for controlled low speed environments, like gated communities, where the risk of a LSV entering into a collision with a faster motor vehicle would be lower than on public roads. Transport Canada’s crash test results to date confirm that low speed vehicles provide a substantially lower level of occupant protection than conventional passenger cars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to The Gazette<\/a> in Montreal, ZENN’s CEO Ian Clifford responded<\/p>\n

Releasing these images without the statistical frame of reference is somewhat irresponsible on Transport Canada’s part. …Our assessment is that low-speed vehicles are among the safest vehicles on the road. I drive our vehicles all the time. I drive the vehicles with my children in them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I contacted GEM to confirm if it is indeed a GEM model in the video and get their response to the testing but have not heard back from them, perhaps after the holiday.<\/p>\n

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Transport Canada posted video footage from recent crash tests of the ZENN and what appears to be a GEM model to bolster their contention that LSVs represent a safety problem when mixing with regular vehicles on public roads. Transport Canada … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,18,21,1,29],"tags":[305,2174,772,1335,2188],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-gem","category-nev","category-regulation-policy","category-uncategorized","category-zenn","tag-crash-test","tag-gem","tag-lsv","tag-transport-canada","tag-zenn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}