Sentences with phrase «deformable front»
In these tests, an impactor with a deformable front end representing the front of a car is used to strike the sides of the vehicles being assessed.
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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 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.
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.
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.
Additional exterior safety features include daytime running lights (DRL), 2.5 - mph front and rear bumpers, and a deformable hood panel, hood hinges and windshield - wiper pivots to help mitigate pedestrian injuries.
Designed to improve overall body stiffness and refinement whilst meeting stringent crash performance targets and pedestrian protection legislation, the new body structure includes reinforcement to the B - posts, sills and front crossmembers together with deformable components in the floorpan for optimal load transfer.
The Institute's offset tests, conducted since 1995, involve 40 percent of a vehicle's front end hitting a deformable barrier at 40 mph.
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.