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A crash test of the Honda Ridgeline by the NHTSA Frontal small-overlap crash test of a 2012 Honda Odyssey 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan being struck by a mobile deformable barrier at 62 km/h 2016 Honda Fit striking a wall head-on at 56 km/h Driver-side oblique crash test of a 2017 Honda Ridgeline Jeep Liberty undergoing routine impact testing at Chrysler's Proving Grounds NHTSA research crash test ...
Informed for LIFE is a Connecticut non-profit organization that provides "a free, public service to guide consumers on the use of vehicle crash test and fatality data". Informed For Life's website was launched in 2003 by Michael D. Dulberger, a retired aerospace engineer, to help consumers identify the safest vehicles to avoid unnecessary loss ...
Crash test videos that Tesla live-streamed at a Nov. 30 event were heavily discussed on social media. Experts who spoke to Reuters said they needed crash-test data to reach firm conclusions about ...
A crash test dummy, or simply dummy, is a full-scale anthropomorphic test device (ATD) that simulates the dimensions, weight proportions and articulation of the human body during a traffic collision. Dummies are used by researchers, automobile and aircraft manufacturers to predict the injuries a person might sustain in a crash. [ 1 ]
For similar reasons it was decided to distinguish between cars with low levels of safety, and cars that in addition to being unsafe were structurally unsound. [3] In 2017, ARCAP agreed to perform a second crash test on the new UAZ Patriot, after the manufacturer had complained about its methodology following a disappointing rating. The second ...
A crash simulation with a slender (left) and obese (right) female passenger. A crash simulation is a virtual recreation of a destructive crash test of a car or a highway guard rail system using a computer simulation in order to examine the level of safety of the car and its occupants.
A vehicle rollover minutes after a crash. All vehicles are susceptible to rollovers to various extents. Generally, rollover tendency increases with the height of the center of mass, narrowness of the axle track, steering sensitivity, and increased speed. The rollover threshold for passenger cars is over 1 g of lateral acceleration.
This NHTSA collision test shows what happens when a Volkswagen New Beetle slides sideways into a utility pole or a tree. Two cars are involved in a side collision at an intersection in Tokyo, Japan. A side collision is a vehicle crash where the side of one or more vehicles is impacted.