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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.
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 ...
A crash test illustrates how a crumple zone absorbs energy from an impact. Road Maintenance Truck Impact Attenuator, Auckland, New Zealand Extent of the crumple zones (blue) and the driver's safety cell (red) of an E217 series train The crumple zone on the front of these cars absorbed the impact of an offset head-on collision.
Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...
The flail space model (FSM) is a model of how a car passenger moves in a vehicle that collides with a roadside feature such as a guardrail or a crash cushion.Its principal purpose is to assess the potential risk of harm to the hypothetical occupant as he or she impacts the interior of the passenger compartment and, ultimately, the efficacy of an experimental roadside feature undergoing full ...
South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operation as investigators worked to identify victims and find out ...
The Steel And Foam Energy Reduction Barrier (SAFER Barrier), sometimes generically referred to as a soft wall, is a technology found on oval automobile race tracks and high-speed sections of road and street tracks, intended to absorb and reduce kinetic energy during the impact of a high-speed crash, and thus, lessen injuries sustained to ...
A Florida couple is facing child abuse charges after local authorities say the man beat a child for nearly half an hour and his wife failed to help the boy.