The
ADAC (
Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.) is
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's and
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's largest automobile club, with 16,070,180 members in December 2007 . It was founded on May 24, 1903 as "Deutsche Motorradfahrer-Vereinigung"
(in English: German Motorbiker Association) and was renamed in 1911. Today it is still the largest motorcyclist association in the world with 1.5 million members.
Both the ADAC, and its older rival AvDAVD may refer to:* Automobilclub von Deutschland, Germany's oldest automobile club* Academy of Veterinary Dentistry* Avadi, Tamil Nadu, India * Alviri-Vidari language, an Iranian language...
(the organizer of the German Grand PrixThe German Grand Prix is an annual automobile race.Because Germany was banned from taking part in international events after World War II, the German GP only became part of the Formula One World Championship in 1951. It has been organized by AvD since 1926...
), are members of the FIA and the DMSB.
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The
ADAC (
Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.) is
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
's and
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
's largest automobile club, with 16,070,180 members in December 2007 . It was founded on May 24, 1903 as "Deutsche Motorradfahrer-Vereinigung"
(in English: German Motorbiker Association) and was renamed in 1911. Today it is still the largest motorcyclist association in the world with 1.5 million members.
Both the ADAC, and its older rival AvDAVD may refer to:* Automobilclub von Deutschland, Germany's oldest automobile club* Academy of Veterinary Dentistry* Avadi, Tamil Nadu, India * Alviri-Vidari language, an Iranian language...
(the organizer of the German Grand PrixThe German Grand Prix is an annual automobile race.Because Germany was banned from taking part in international events after World War II, the German GP only became part of the Formula One World Championship in 1951. It has been organized by AvD since 1926...
), are members of the FIA and the DMSB. The European Grand PrixThe European Grand Prix is a Formula One event that was reintroduced during the mid-1980s and has been held regularly since 1999. From 2008 it will take place for at least another 7 years. In earlier years, one of the national Grands Prix was also designated as the European Grand Prix...
, the former ADAC EifelrennenThe ADAC Eifelrennen was an annual motor race, organised by ADAC Automobile Club from 1922 to 2003, held in Germany's Eifel mountain region even before the Nürburgring was built there.- History :...
, the 24 Hours NürburgringThe 24 Hours Nürburgring is a GT and touring car endurance racing event on the Nürburgring, inspired by the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Spa 24 Hours. The venue of this event is held on the Nürburgring Nordschleife , and is geared towards amateur drivers and primarily production cars...
and many other races are hosted by ADAC.
The ADAC also operates a large fleet of mobile mechanics in yellow cars that assist motorists in trouble - the Yellow Angels. The ADAC runs its own modification center whereby ordinary vanA van is a kind of vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people. It is usually a box-shaped vehicle on four wheels, about the same width and length as a large automobile, but taller and usually higher off the ground, also referred to as a light commercial vehicle or LCV...
s are turned into mobile garageAn automobile repair shop is a place where automobiles are repaired by auto mechanics and electricians.- Types :Some auto parts stores also maintain service operations...
s (pictures only depict Ford Galaxies) in 55 man-hours.
In addition to this, the ADAC provides 44 helicopters for urgent medical rescues in Germany, strategically placed so that any location can be reached within 15 minutes. Air ambulance jets are used by the ADAC to rescue their members with a "PLUS" membership or customers who own an ADAC international travel insurance from any location worldwide in the case of accident or extreme sickness. During the Tsunami catastrophy, the ADAC evacuated thousands of German citizens and members from the region home to wherever they are living (Germany or not).
The ADAC also offers its membership to non German residents, having signed contracts with automobile clubs worldwide. In the UK, it is possible to have breakdown recovery through the local AA whilst having an ADAC membership.
The ADAC is publisher of the magazine with the largest distribution in Germany, the "ADAC Motorwelt". "ADAC Motorwelt", which is also distributed (still in the German language) to ADAC members outside Germany, features articles of common interest to all participants of public traffic, such as product tests, safe driving tips and also places to visit by car or motorbike.
On June 3 2008, the ADAC suspended its involvement with the FIA over the scandal surrounding Max MosleyMax Rufus Mosley is president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile , a non-profit association that represents the interests of motoring organisations and car users worldwide...
and his subsequent retention as FIA president.
International affiliates
The ADAC has reciprocal arrangements with a range of international affiliates, including
- The AAA
The AAA , formerly known as the American Automobile Association, is a 50 million member North American not-for-profit automobile lobby group, service organization, and seller of vehicle insurance...
in the USA
- The AA
The Automobile Association is a British company providing car insurance, breakdown cover, loans and motoring advice. It was a former motoring association that became a private limited company in 1999, and is owned by two private equity firms....
in the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
History
At the end of 1962 ADAC announced the retirement of their motor-bike-sidecar combinations which would be replaced by 40 appropriately equipped Volkswagen Beetles. Equipment on the new cars included a flashing roof-light, repair tools, a radio-based communication device, compressed air canisters, a spade and broom set, and a basic "doctor-kit" incorporating blood-plasma.
In 1974 the organisation had 3.8 million members at a time when there were 19.0 million passenger cars registered in Germany: by 1990 membership had risen to 10.2 million, with 35.5 million passenger cars registered in the country, so that ADAC membership has grown more than twice as fast as national car ownership. Growth rates during the ensuing twenty years were greatly boosted by German reunificationGerman reunification is the process in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and Berlin was united into a single city-state. The start of this process is commonly referred to by former citizens of the GDR as die Wende...
.
EuroRAP in Germany
ADAC is the active member for the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP)in Germany. ADAC regularly publish maps showing safety characteristics of Germany's roads.
These maps based on EuroRAP's Road Protection Score Protocol (or Star Rating Protocol) is a measure of how well a road protects road users in the event of an accident. Data on road characteristics is gathered by driving through road inspections using a specially equipped RPS inspection vehicle (Strassentest vehicle in German). Trained assessors then rate the safety features and hazards on the inspected road and use stanardised formula to produce a safety rating—star rating—which is comparable across Europe.
ADAC also undertake road inspections on behalf of other EuroRAP members, including the Road Safety FoundationThe Road Safety Foundation is a UK based charity which carries out and procures research into safe road design and road safety. The Foundation is responsible for the European Road Assessment Programme in the UK and Ireland.-History:...
in the UK.
Campaigning for Safe Road Design
The European Campaign for Safe Road DesignThe European Campaign for Safe Road Design aims to influece the European Union to make safe road design a European transport priority and save unnecessary deaths on Europes roads...
is a partnership between 28 major European road safety stakeholders that is calling for the EC to invest in safe road infrastructure initiatives which could cut deaths on European roads by 33% in less than a decade. ADAC is the campaign's partner in Germany.
See also
- Breakdown (vehicle)
A vehicle breakdown is the mechanical failure of a motor vehicle in such a way that the underlying problem prevents the vehicle from being operated at all, or impedes the vehicle's operation so much, that it is very difficult or nearly impossible, or dangerous to operate, or else at risk of causing...
- Breakdown Cover
Breakdown cover is a form of insurance policy that provides assistance to motorists whose vehicles have suffered a mechanical failure that is significant enough to leave them stranded at their present location...
- EuroRAP
European Road Assessment Programme is a non-profit road safety organisation which aims to reduce death and serious injury on Europe's roads...
- European Campaign for Safe Road Design
The European Campaign for Safe Road Design aims to influece the European Union to make safe road design a European transport priority and save unnecessary deaths on Europes roads...
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