Sentences with phrase «use crash test dummies»

The «abhorrent» dating tactics of the male redback spider: Scientists find they target immature females who haven't yet learnt to eat them after mating Car companies use crash test dummies when they want to figure out how to make their vehicles safer.

Thousands of cycling accidents using crash test dummies and humans were re-enacted and analyzed to ensure that the airbag inside the collar deploys when it should.

Ten helmets tested by researchers reduced the likelihood of traumatic brain injury by an average of 20 percent compared with no helmet in a simulation using crash test dummies.

The researchers used a crash test dummy head and neck to simulate impact.

Not exact matches

When you install the car seat using methods not outlined in the instruction manual, you are, in essence, using your child as the crash test dummy.

Something that would greatly benefit car seat research was first used in 1949, a crash test dummy.

Thibault points to a 2003 study in the Journal of Neurosurgery that used lifelike infant dolls with crash test dummy accelerometers inside their heads.

He thinks one answer may be for safety authorities to use heavier crash - test dummies when certifying cars as safe to drive.

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 upgraded ratings system evaluates side pole crash testing and crash prevention - technologies and uses female crash test dummies for the first time.

The dummies used in the crash tests roughly correspond with a 18 - month - old and a three - year - old — these sit in child restraints on the back seat.

So far, no single dummy is sufficiently humanlike to be used in all crash tests.

Analysis of the movement and contact points of the dummies» heads during the side impact crash test is used to assess this aspect of protection.

SIDs used in government crash tests aren't very sophisticated dummies.

The newly introduced side - pole crash test exclusively uses the small female crash dummy in a front seating position.

Another reason is that the frontal crash dummy IIHS uses in the small overlap test isn't good at measuring risks from lateral forces.

Using crash - test dummies, the agency measures probable head, chest and leg injuries to passengers in the vehicles.

Today, we test for 29 different crash conditions using an entire family of dummies.

This one that you are about to see is all about the crash test dummies that are used in the General Motors testing facility.

Engineers use footage from cameras to assess how dummies move during crash tests.

«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.

IIHS agrees that crash tests should use the most biofidelic dummies available but notes that NHTSA hasn't supplied any comparative data to show that THOR, the modified Hybrid III 5th percentile female and the WorldSID 50th percentile male it proposes to use would provide more benefits and drive better vehicle designs than the dummies currently used.

By looking at crash tests using different dummy positions, the effect of optimising occupants» seating position before the start of the impact could then be determined.

This is the first time IIHS has tested SUV and pickup seats using a dummy that can measure forces on the neck during a simulated rear - end crash.

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.

Previous installments have focused on other IIHS tests, crash test dummies, the propulsion system used to power crash tests and the Institute's booster seat rating program.

In 1950, a dummy was created by Samuel W. Alderson of the Alderson Research Labs and was used to perform crash tests for both aircraft and motor vehicles.

And, for the first time, it will use female crash test dummies to simulate crash scenarios involving women, not just men.

The Center for Pet Safety certifies products based on safety testing using animal crash test dummies.

A pickup truck is used here, but the tech — called the Beam physics system — can be used with anything, including «cars, trucks, planes, boats, trains, cranes, tanks, helicopters, and even destructible map objects and crash test dummies.»

Proper use of gas and clean coal generation will be essential until renewables and other forms of generation are economical, but South Australia's ideological crusade (which has turned the state into the world's electricity crash test dummy, as I read somewhere) has meant that the lights will continue to go out during periods of high demand, with or without Elon Musk's Duracell.

A new crash test dummy is hitting the market and it's being used to help keep your child safe in the event of a car accident in Chicago and elsewhere.