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A crash cushion installed on a motorway exit in Italy. An impact attenuator, also known as a crash cushion, crash attenuator, or cowboy cushion, is a device intended to reduce the damage to structures, vehicles, and motorists resulting from a motor vehicle collision. Impact attenuators are designed to absorb the colliding vehicle's kinetic energy.
"Our guardrails and crash attenuators, they are rated up to 5,000 pounds. Many of these [electric] vehicles go up to 10,000 pounds, so that has an impact on safety," Homendy said during a Senate ...
Sicking holds 30 patents, [2] the five most significant of which are: the first energy absorbing guardrail terminal, [3] the first crash cushion without sacrificial energy absorbents, [4] the first guardrail capable of containing large SUV's, [5] a trailer mounted impact attenuator, [6] and NASCAR's Steel and Foam Energy Reduction (SAFER ...
Attenuator (electronics), an electronic device that reduces the amplitude of an electronic signal. Optical attenuator, an electronic device that reduces the amplitude of an optical signal. Attenuator (genetics), a specific regulatory sequence transcribed into RNA. Impact attenuator, used on highways as a crumple zone in case of a car crash.
Last spring, Apple engineer Walter Huang aka Wei Lun Huang died in a crash when his Tesla Model X hit a median on Highway 101 in Mountain View while the car's Autopilot driving assist was engaged.
The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday criticized Tesla's lack of system safeguards in a fatal Autopilot crash in California in 2018 and U.S. regulators' "scant ...
A collision avoidance system (CAS), also known as a pre-crash system, forward collision warning system (FCW), or collision mitigation system, is an advanced driver-assistance system designed to prevent or reduce the severity of a collision. [2]
The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla , according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could ...