Sentences with phrase «real crash tests»

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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.

If we look at all data, crash test, real life usage, and habits, Isofix is far safer than installing a car seat with seat belt.

So what I did was I recruited 28 test subjects and had them complete three laps on the game Gran Turismo 3 for PlayStation 2; and they had a steering wheel, an acceleration [and] brake pad to simulate a real driving experience, and I counted the number of crashes they made during each lap, which was the number of times they hit the wall and also the number of times that they deviated from the course.

The benefits would be twofold: not only would a standardised crash test procedure be introduced, but safety techniques already used in the world of motorsport would give real - world relevance to the sport - which might otherwise come under even greater scrutiny should another high - profile death occur.

After running the small overlap test on the Taurus, IIHS concluded that a driver may injure the left lower leg in a real - world crash of the same severity.

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.

Seats and head restraints have to work together to protect the neck, and the Institute's test indicates that in a real - world crash the seats in the Prius wouldn't keep the forces on the neck as low as in other vehicles.

The small overlap test is relatively new at the IIHS — initiated in 2012 — but it is purported to be a much more real - world crash test than the full - frontal crash test that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) performs, or even the moderate overlap test the IIHS performs.

The goal of our crash test program is to encourage these kinds of improvements to reduce injury risk in real - world crashes.»

In the side impact test for both models, measures taken from both the driver dummy and the passenger dummy seated in the rear seat indicated low risk of significant injuries in a real - world crash like this one.

A 2008 study looked at real - world crashes involving seat / head restraint combinations that had been dynamically tested.

Although the tests IIHS conducts are good predictors of the results of a crash, how do older vehicles compare in the real world as safety progresses?

The basic idea behind such crash tests is to make consumers aware of such safety features and how much difference do they make in real world conditions.

What's left is a pleasant enough family sedan with some real strengths, including a quiet interior, a comfortable ride and excellent crash test scores.

Before we launched VE, we conducted almost 80 real world prototype crash tests and more than 5000 crashtest simulations using leading edge virtual technology.

This new test program is based on years of analyzing real - world frontal crashes and then replicating them in our crash test facility to determine how people are being seriously injured and how cars can be designed to protect them better.

No one knows for sure why ABS test performance has not translated into a substantial reduction in real - world crashes.

This latest video shows crash tests in real time and in slow motion, featuring a small offset crash at 40 mph, a side impact at 35 mph and a rollover test in which the XC90 snap - rolls twice before coming to a rest on all four wheels.

Although antilocks perform well on the test track, there is little evidence that they have substantially reduced real - world crashes.

This technology was proven in real life testing to reduce frontal crashes by as much as 40 %.

Automakers discovered through real - world crash analysis and testing that drivers often crashed into things even when the vehicle was capable of stopping in time.

They offer a higher degree of biofidelity — in that they perform like bodies do in real life — compared to conventional crash test dummies.

The test dummies in the GEMs and the Tiger recorded indications of seriously debilitating or fatal injury to drivers in real - world crashes.

One possible reason for the differing results is that real people move more during a crash and are prone to be out of position at the start, compared with relatively stiff and precisely positioned crash test dummies.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Drivers of vehicles that perform well in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's side - impact crash test are much less likely to die in a real - world left - side crash than drivers of vehicles that do poorly, a new analysis finds.

«Our crash test results confirm what the Institute found is happening in real - world crashes,» O'Neill says.

General Motors officials say that the tests do not provide a full and accurate gauge of how a vehicle performs in real - world conditions, but they also acknowledge that consumers value crash data for comparison shopping.

Research shows that drivers of vehicles that earn good ratings in frontal offset crash tests have significantly lower risk of fatal injuries in real - world frontal crashes, compared with drivers of vehicles with poor ratings.

The small - overlap crash test was instituted in 2012 with the goal of better replicating real - life car crashes, most of which don't follow the pattern of traditional government crash tests.

In the test of an early 2017 model, intrusion reached 7 inches at the footrest, and measures taken from the dummy showed that injuries to the left lower leg would be likely in a real - world crash of the same severity.

We think the IIHS» offset - barrier tests are closer to real - world collisions than tNHTSA's front barrier crash, so we tend to give them more credence.

Honda claims that the crash tests predict real world results effectively.

Of course, real models and government crash testing is still essential.

Even though Honda can predict how a crash will happen very accurately, it's still essential to demonstrate in the real world — and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety won't settle for a virtual crash test when giving out ratings.

By the time a real - world prototype is created, the engineers can be sure that the results of a real - world crash test will mirror the virtual tests down to the millimeter.

The researchers compared injury data reported from real crashes with results of both the Institute's frontal offset crash tests and the federal government's full - front tests.

Real rollover crashes occur in lots of ways, and engineers have come up with different kinds of tests to address various aspects of these crashes — dolly rollovers, curb trips, dirt trips, corkscrews, and fallovers, among others.

Because crash test dummies aren't used, the static test can't directly provide key information about injury risk to occupants involved in real - world rollover crashes.

The information recorded by the crash test dummies in real time during the crash tests, such as accelerations, forces, moments and displacements.

In their latest series of tests, EuroNCAP recently crashed a number of brand - new cars in order to determine how safe, or not, they are in real - life accidents.

Backed by crash tests and studies of real - world underride cases, the Institute has outlined ways to improve rear guards to make them less likely to buckle or break off during a rear crash.

Joe's first real test of medical skill is on a pilot whose plane takes a hard landing in a training field; after rushing to the crash scene, he is stunned to come face - to - face with a gorgeous Rita Hayworth lookalike.

«When you're buying a vehicle, you should check crash test rating but also you should select a vehicle that has low insurance losses in real crashes because that can help lower your insurance premium, and the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) publishes a brochure that shows such losses for vehicles by make and model.»

Meanwhile, TMZ reports: «Jose Rodriguez — a Manhattan chef — spoke with the New York Daily News following the crash... claiming Lindsay was slurring her words and «smelled like alcohol real bad» when she hit him with her Porsche... Cops say they don't believe Lohan was drunk at the time of the arrest — however Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly admitted Lindsay did not take a breathalyzer test.