Sentences with phrase «with crash test dummies»

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

Not exact matches

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.

They crash test the seats with what you buy them with and so if it doesn't have it that means it hasn't been crash tested and I don't think that any of us wants our babies to be crash test dummies so it's just best to avoid them.

They properly installed the car seats and then conducted 12 rear impact crash tests of moderate the severity with dummies strapped into the car seats, measuring how each crash would affect each body part.

To do that, he plans to send two Humanetics Hybrid II headforms (read: crash test dummies) equipped with magnetized helmets and accelerometers, careening down a zip line toward each other.

By monitoring what happens when the crash - test dummies meet, Colello can be sure that the magnets aren't just replacing linear forces with rotational ones.

During this stringent front - overlap test, the IIHS found that the 2016 Kia Sorento had minimal intrusion into the driver's space, and significantly improved control of the dummy's motion compared with the 2014 - 2015 Kia Sorento, which received «Poor» ratings for the small overlap front crash test.

For example, if a crash test with dummies is required, the test instruments in the dummies must show that injuries did not exceed a specified level.

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.

People with some training in electronics, computers, photography, auto mechanics or fabrication (machine tools and welding) prepare vehicles for testing, calibrate and install sensors, build test fixtures, calibrate and maintain test dummies and film crash tests.

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.

Each year, NHTSA spends about $ 1.5 million to conduct full frontal crash tests on 30 to 35 new vehicles equipped with instrumented dummies.

For crash tests, the company provides video footage, along with measurements of intrusion and injury data from the dummies.

The side - barrier crash test now implements a combination of male and female crash test dummies, with the male positioned in a front seating position (as before) and the small female (new) in a rear seating position.

The dummy's position in relation to the door frame, steering wheel, and instrument panel after the crash test indicates the driver's survival space wasn't maintained well (second test with front and side curtain airbag deployment).

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.

The dummy's position in relation to the door frame, steering wheel, and instrument panel after the crash test, together with the footwell intrusion, indicates that the driver's survival space wasn't maintained well (first test shown).

The dummy's position in relation to the steering wheel and instrument panel after the crash test, together with the footwell intrusion, indicate that the driver space wasn't maintained well.

«Inside IIHS: Rear testing for whiplash prevention» features BioRID, a specialized rear testing dummy with a spine very similar to a human's, and demonstrates how rear crashes are simulated on a sled.

Both the 1 1/2 year and 3 year dummies were sat in rearward - facing restraints and the XC90 scored maximum points for its protection of both in the full scale crash tests, with good protection of all parts of the body.

The vehicle will be rewarded if test criteria remain low and if neither dummy was ejected from its seat or made any hard contact with the vehicle interior during the crash.

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.»

Mr. Bayrle might have done more with this motif, but the suggestion of a test - crash dummy that has consciousness, and possibly a brain crawling with ants, is memorable.

Her favourite subjects include «cross-species romance, dogs with itchy butts, drunk people barfing, strange fish, cloud formations, car crashes with test dummies flying out of them, weird glitches from video games that force human bodies into unnatural contortions, hilarious porn scenes, baby pratfalls, animals with clothes on, dogs humping unsuspecting humans, people wanking, kangaroos wanking, bears wanking» — anything outrageous, raunchy or abject.

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.

Manufacturers failing to conduct crash tests with a proper range of crash test dummies to account for all the varying body shapes and sizes of potential drivers and passengers