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Its bumpers performed only a little better than those on the old Explorer, and the Jeep Liberty sustained more damage than three other vehicles in a recent series of crash tests at 5 mph conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Not exact matches

It is not yet clear whether Uber's system was at fault or not in the latest crash, but Uber has now halted all testing of its autonomous vehicles, with no clear timeline for reactivation.

While the literature suggests that mini flash crashes occur most frequently at the beginning and end of trading hours [21], we investigate all three - minute windows in the control period to check that the activity seen in the test window is truly anomalous from normal trading activity.

The scratched date follows the death of Maj. Stephen Del Bagno, a 34 - year - old Thunderbirds pilot who crashed his F - 16 at the Nevada Test and Training Range during routine aerial training.

Tonight at 5 pm: Uber suspended all of its self - driving testing Monday after what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving the vehicles.

Recently he got a taste of the real thing again as he tested a single - seater for the first time since his crash, driving a BRDC British F3 car at a very soggy Oulton Park.

Let's hope his previous F1 tests get him settled into the Toro Rosso STR12, so there's no repeat of the tunnel crash at the Yas Marina Circuit.

The European Le Mans Series was in action at the «Temple of Speed» on Tuesday and Wednesday but the opening day of the test involved a huge crash for the M.Racing — YMR LMP3 machine.

Little was expected of the team at the first race in Australia, and so it proved when Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen (who was subbing for Fernando Alonso, who was concussed in a testing crash) locked out the back row of the grid, some three seconds away from the front - runners.

Having spun out on day two of testing, he spun again in the morning on day three and then crashed into the wall on his 99th lap at the exit of Turn 5.

We did crash tests and we'll do a filming day with the new car before the start of the winter test at Barcelona.»

On 6 May 1990, the day he was expected at Heathrow to join his team - mates on an end - of - season tour of Singapore, Tony Adams was uninjured when he crashed his car, but after subsequent breath tests he was charged with reckless driving and driving with excess alcohol, but despite the ruling was told he was free to leave the station.

The Canadian rookie made some costly mistakes early on in Winter Testing and crashed during practice in Australia which would later develop into him starting at the back of the grid for the opening race of the season.

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Rear facing crash test at 35 mph (50 km / h) of a Britax Two - Way (ugly colors I know: — RRB --RRB-.

Diono tested the Radian RXT at twice the force of a standard crash test, and it surpassed the federal crash test standards.

We can stage crashes equivalent to 85 km / h (53 mph) in the car - much higher than the European Safety Regulations of 30 mph or ADAC crash tests at 40 mph.

Professor Aldman is legendary for his research but it's Thomas Turbell who is called the «Father of rear facing» for his work at the highly regarded crash test facility VTI in Sweden:

We stage crashes equivalent to 85 km / h (53 mph) in the car - much higher than the European Safety Regulations of 30 mph or ADAC crash tests at 40 mph.

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That's why at Consumer Reports, we evaluate the structural integrity of booster car seats in our simulated crash tests and how the seat belt fits on a test dummy representing an average - sized 6 - year - old.

Medical evidence showed that Unger has had epilepsy since roughly the 1980s but had not been taking medication as prescribed before the crash, as tests taken at the hospital showed that the level of medicine in his blood was far below the proper level, according to court documents.

The 2003 book by Mary Roach takes a sweeping look at everything from cadaver farms, where donated bodies rot slowly outside in the name of science, to the use of human bodies as crash - test dummies.

THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: At the end of 2011 there were several news stories about how a battery in the Chevy Volt, GM's first mainstream electric vehicle since the EV1, caught fire several weeks after the car was subject to crash testing.

Famed engineer and racer Ken Miles was killed in one of them after a testing crash at Riverside; the other was crushed thereafter.

In addition to random testing, truck and bus companies are further required to perform drug and alcohol testing on new hires, drivers involved in significant crashes, and whenever a supervisor suspects a driver of using drugs or alcohol while at work.

The new small overlap frontal crash test, designed to simulate what would happen when the front corner of a car collides with another vehicle or object, constitutes the front end of the driver's side striking a five - foot tall rigid barrier at 40 mph.

Truck and bus companies are further required to perform drug and alcohol testing on new hires, drivers involved in significant crashes and whenever a supervisor suspects a driver of using drugs or alcohol while at work.

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.

Performance requirements: Participating manufacturers will ensure vehicles have both a forward collision warning system that meets a subset of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's current 5 - Star Safety Ratings program requirements on the timing of driver alerts and an automatic braking system that earns at least an advanced rating in the current Insurance Institute for Highway Safety front crash prevention track tests.

Although buyers will be saving at the pump, the Prius didn't do too hot in an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash test, and we've found recent versions offer all the driving enjoyment of an empty cardboard box.

The MKX managed to avoid an imminent collision by itself at both 12 mph and 25 mph, the two tests that are run to determine the effectiveness of the crash prevention.

For example, with the small overlap front crash test they look at the potential for injury in each area of the body as well as the kinetics of the dummy.

If the car you're looking at has been tested by the government for safety, the results of its crash tests are included in this section.

This crash test is particularly challenging because the occupants move both forward and toward the side of the vehicle at the same time.

As you can imagine, designing a car to absorb crash energy from a full - frontal crash test is completely different than designing a car to better absorb crash energy directed at just a quarter of the frontal area.

When the Institute subjected child restraints to successive crash tests at high speeds, most of the restraints kept their structural integrity despite minor damage.

For eight years the Institute has been providing comparative rankings of passenger vehicles based on performance in frontal offset crash tests at 40 mph.

Each vehicle's overall side evaluation is based on performance in a crash test in which the side of the vehicle is struck by a barrier moving at 31 mph.

The Eclipse Cross» crashworthiness hasn't been tested in the United States, but the ratings should be at least as good given the severity of European crash tests.

The test simulates a rear - end crash with a velocity change of 10 mph, approximately equivalent to a stationary vehicle being struck at 20 mph by a vehicle of the same weight.

Each test simulates an intersection crash in which a striking vehicle moving at 30 mph, represented by the barrier, hits the driver side of a vehicle going 15 mph.

Another 24 percent of the frontal crashes were moderate overlap crashes, although they likely occurred at much higher speeds than the Institute's moderate overlap test.

It coupled a score of acceptable or better in the small front overlap test with at least the OPTION of an automated frontal crash prevention system on that model as the minimum bar to receive TSP +.

The side evaluation is based on performance in a crash test in which the side of a vehicle is struck by a barrier moving at 31 mph.

As of this year, a vehicle had to achieve a Good score in moderate overlap, side, roof, and head restraints tests, an Acceptable or Good rating in the small front overlap crash test, and at least an Advanced or Superior rating in the Front Crash Prevention tests.

In this evaluation, vehicles were tested in a frontal crash at 40 mph (64 km / h) and in a side crash at 31 mph (50 km / h) with a movable barrier shaped like the front end of an SUV.

When you think that most crashes happend at 80km / h you would really reconsider these tests, because with that kind of speed, it won't do much good.

The Institute's crashworthiness evaluations are based primarily on results of the frontal offset crash test at 40 mph.

Though there haven't been any published crash test results at time of writing, the Infiniti Q50 sedan that shares a lot of the core mechanical bits with the Q60 was awarded the full five stars in its most recent NHTSA crash test, so the array of safety gear on the Infiniti Q60 should mean business as usual in this regard.