Sentences with phrase «deformable barriers»

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the 2004 Elantra with the redesigned driver and passenger airbags in three 40 mph moderate overlap frontal crash tests into deformable barriers.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the Grand Caravan in three 40 mph moderate overlap frontal crash tests into deformable barriers.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the Sienna in two 40 mph moderate overlap frontal crash tests into deformable barriers.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the Liberty in two 40 mph moderate overlap frontal crash tests into deformable barriers.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the CTS in two 40 mph frontal offset crash tests into deformable barriers.

The small blue Rover 100 - née Metro, a car with roots dating back to 1980 - connected with the offset deformable barrier at the regulation 40mph.

In the moderate overlap front test, a fast - moving vehicle strikes a deformable barrier made of aluminum honeycomb that crushes like a real car would in a crash.

The new test will augment the agency's existing frontal test, which crashes a car at 40 mph against a deformable barrier that overlaps 40 % of the front.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a Maxima with the structural and airbag modifications in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.

The changed vehicle mix and high risks to occupants of side - struck vehicles when the striking vehicles are SUVs or pickups led the Institute to modify the moving deformable barrier used in the federal test so the front end represents the geometry of a typical SUV or pickup.

Very high head injury measures typically are recorded when the moving deformable barrier hits a dummy's head during impact.

This moving deformable barrier was developed in the early 1980s, when cars represented most of the vehicles on the road.

The moving deformable barrier that strikes the test vehicle weighs 3,300 pounds and has a front end shaped to simulate the typical front end of a pickup or SUV.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a 1999 ML 320 with the structural changes in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a GS 400 with the structural changes in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.

In Euro NCAP's test, a deformable barrier is mounted on a trolley and is driven at 50km / h into the side of the stationary test vehicle at right angles.

In the Institute's 40 mph offset frontal test, now called a moderate overlap frontal test, 40 percent of the total width of a vehicle strikes a deformable barrier on the driver side.

The impact takes place at 64kph, 40 % of the width of the car striking a deformable barrier.

Two full - scale crash tests are done: a full - width frontal impact at 50km / h against a deformable element; and a side impact test, also at 50km / h, in which a deformable barrier is driven into the side of the vehicle.

In the side impact, a mobile deformable barrier impacts the driver's door at 50 km / h.

NHTSA crashes vehicles into solid barriers at 35 mph for the frontal test and rams a deformable barrier into the sides of vehicles at 38.5 mph for the side - impact test.

In the Institute test, a moving deformable barrier strikes the driver side of a passenger vehicle at 31 mph.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a 2001 RAV4 with the initial structural and airbag modifications in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.

It slams a vehicle into a deformable barrier at 40 mph.

The offset barrier crash test, which has been the workhorse for the IIHS for many years, calls for a test car to be crashed head - on into a deformable barrier at 40 miles per hour.

Euro NCAP results revealed that the i30's cabin aced the frontal offset deformable barrier and side impact crash tests, but the hatchback also scored high in the safety assist and pedestrian protection departments.

Vehicle ratings (see attachment) reflect performance in 40 mph frontal offset crash tests into a deformable barrier.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a Fusion with the added part in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.

The Institute's frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier is especially demanding of vehicle structure.

In the frontal test, vehicles strike a deformable barrier at 40 mph.

In the Institute's side impact test, a moving deformable barrier strikes the driver side of a passenger vehicle at 31 mph.

The Institute's offset tests, conducted since 1995, involve 40 percent of a vehicle's front end hitting a deformable barrier at 40 mph.

Offset crash testing into a deformable barrier captures researchers» interest at international conference

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the redesigned 2004 S40 in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.

Another technique used in rating safety of the cars is a side impact test which uses a moving deformable barrier that surpasses the front end of the pickup truck or a huge SUV which hits the vehicle after travelling at a speed of 31 miles per hour.

In Adult Protection, the Matiz Creative recorded the maximum score of 8 points in the side impact crash test against a moving deformable barrier.

Not exact matches

Like the FMVSS 214 barrier, its face is deformable to represent the crushable front end of a striking vehicle.

Unlike the moderate overlap frontal crash the IIHS had been performing for years, in which 40 percent of the front of the car contacts a deformable (crushable) barrier, in this new test only 25 percent of the car's frontal crash area — the driver's corner — hits a barrier and this one does not squish.

«Inside IIHS: Side testing» shows the Institute's moving deformable side impact crash test barrier and the dummies used in the side test, and explains the evolution of side crash protection.