Vehicle Technology in Nepal

Vehicle technology can improve the transport system in many ways in Nepal, but specifically in the context of this paper, it has the potential to reduce the number of accidents in the roads. There are a vast number of technologies available on new vehicles or top of the range vehicles that will become more common in future, there are also many more technologies being researched. All of which are designed to alert, assist or take control from the driver and all respond to different dangers at different intervals before an accident occurs. It is important that the most beneficial of these technologies are identify at an early stage and emphasis is put on introducing them as early as possible. This emphasis must consist of ensuring that resources are dedicated towards developing the technology and validating it’s safety effects, promoting the safety benefits of technology to the public in the wider context of road safety, and ensuring early take up of the technology where possible. The success of this emphasis is dependent upon developing vehicle safety policy as much as it is the engineering aspects of vehicle safety. It is important that road safety policies and strategies develop with technology.