"Crash worthiness" refers to how well a vehicle or object can protect passengers or occupants in the event of a crash or collision. It measures the ability of a vehicle or structure to minimize injury or damage during an accident.
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The features of a car with a good
crash worthiness rating not only protect your vehicle from any crash but also will help in availing discounts on your car insurance rates.
First, the recipe for roadway safety includes a number of equally important ingredients: Cars are getting safer — as crash avoidance and
crash worthiness technologies improve.
Safety Advancing the Ring - Shaped Reinforcement Frame Body Structure, the new WRX STI has realized high levels of safety and
crash worthiness through effectively absorbing and dispersing crash impact in frontal, side, or rear impact crashes.
Although all cars must meet federalstandards
for crash worthiness, large cars are usually safer than small cars in a crash, sometimes much safer.
Kia Stinger was awarded the full five stars by Euro NCAP which aside from the
usual crash worthiness also means it has all the active safety gadgets too.
Going forward, Mazda remains committed to reducing vehicle weight and improving dynamic performance while also maintaining a high level of body rigidity and
excellent crash worthiness, in order to provide all its customers with driving pleasure and outstanding environmental and safety performance.
It would also create
new crash worthiness standards to improve auto safety for back - seat passengers.
We have successfully presented auto accident claims for improper repairs, lack
of crash worthiness, improper vehicle loads, defective tires and numerous maintenance issues that may have caused a crash.
The New York Democrat wants the agencies to investigate
their crash worthiness and consider new regulations.
The IIHS has not yet rated the Civic hatchback, but did give the 2017 sedan its Top Safety Pick designation, with its top «Good» safety ratings in
every crash worthiness test.
You can also check NHTSA and the IIHS websites to see what a vehicle's
crash worthiness is under the federal 5 - star program, as well as additional tests that go beyond current safety standards, like IIHS» small overlap crash test.
Formula 1 race cars have been built using CFRP monocoques for many years — and have proven
their crash worthiness time and again.
Injuries and death due to dangerous or defective consumer products, vehicle defects including rollovers, seat belt failures and
crash worthiness, medical devices and drugs.