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The failed results of crash tests ...
Finnish Editorial AutoBild (Germany) published an interesting article on the crash tests in which the premium cars showed very poor results. I present to you a translation
Text AutoBild, the translation of the undersigned, the photo with spaces
AUDI A4 and Mercedes-Benz C-Class failed the tests conducted in the US, where the area of the collision is lisch quarter of the total width of the machine. The result is shocking, because it turns out that at present, many car collision is not safe
Before buying a car Florian Wieland inquired how many stars in the test car got EuroNCAP. This European research center with headquarters in Brussels awarded the previous version of the Hyundai i30 full 5 stars. Wieland took the decision to purchase. About a year he went, feeling safe until you hit with your family in an accident July 13, 2012.
The driver of the Volkswagen Golf noticed rotates Executive Volkswagen Phaeton, crashed into him, and pushed into oncoming traffic. Phaethon crashed into the front of casual Hyundai. Wieland says that the A- and B-pillar bent and the left front wheel and the engine drove into the passenger compartment to the radio. Dashboard Wieland shattered knee and left foot remained jammed. Fortunately, the pregnant wife of Wieland escaped with only minor injuries. Two weeks of lying in the hospital, Wieland thought about how similar could happen with a car, earn 5 stars in the test Euro NCAP.
The hard truth is that the head-on collision on a tangent is not investigated at all. Buyers are not provided with information about this or other types of collisions neissleduemyh. In Europe, for example, there is no test for rear impact (chain accident) or test turning. Also collision involving a small square in front of the (Small overlap) never studied anywhere in the world, is the North American Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, IIHS) has not taken it into their program.
The new test IIHS vehicle moving at a speed of 64 km / h, touches the obstacle only a quarter of the width of the front. As a result, the collision energy is concentrated on a small patch and a counter-party to the collision penetrates almost the entire depth of the hood. In Euro NCAP tests the frontal area of overlap is usually 40%, so the energy is absorbed more efficiently.
The new test has the effect of a cold shower for the German automotive industry. Of the four possible responses to the weakest «P» (poor - weak) got the Audi A4 and the Mercedes-Benz C-class. The BMW 3-series was rated better than only one item (Marginal - Marginal).
The bulk of the car is designed to calculate the average of the hood will take the lion's share of the collision energy, says Adrian Lund, IIHS head. If you have a collision on a narrow section of the left or right, from the energy-absorbing structures not persuasion. As a result, passengers are protected by an extremely weak. According to the research organization Development Association Automotive Medicine, the risk of serious injury in a collision with a small overlapping area is three-fold compared to the 100 percent head-on collision.
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Expert accidents, Professor Hans Boymler, sees the reason for the poor results of tests in the design error spars. -In Many models they are located too close to the center, to steer the front wheels was better, and turning radius of the machine accordingly less. Classic dispute comfort with safety.
Posted in [mergetime] 1348828150 [/ mergetime]
Volvo has passed the test with the American representative results - again. S60 received by all sections of the better estimate of «Good - Good." Among rear impact tests were and the coup. In a test with 25 per cent frontal overlap Volvo successfully managed through hidden in the wings of the guide. They have gone oncoming car to the side of the cab.
image losses of the German automotive industry is difficult to estimate, and a PR departments are not able to embellish reality. I try, they will cause the impression that deliberately downplaying the importance of safety.
Armin Yotts, a spokesman for Audi promises: "We take security very seriously. In the development of the latest test of the new A4 was still not known. But we will take it into account when developing new models »
According to statements by Audi of all alarms with a 25 percent overlap only 4% end in death or serious injury of participants. Also, a spokesman for Mercedes said that such collisions are rare. Strain identified in the American test, occur, he said, when faced with a tough obstacle. Oncoming cars such practice is not, and therefore less destructive consequences of a collision.
Posted in [mergetime] 1348828301 [/ mergetime]
Little relief for the Germans was that also the Japanese Lexus IS250 / 350 has received a test Small Overlap most lower estimate.
Posted in [mergetime] 1348828326 [/ mergetime]
As a result,
Accidents are very individual. Organizers crash tests have to choose what they will simulate a collision. We must not forget that when a certain result in the vehicle receives 5 stars, this is only half the truth. Absolute security does not exist. The five-star result is not life insurance. With the exception of Volvo, car manufacturers do not test their products more freely than in the volumes necessary for the passage of a specific crash test. It's sad but it's true.
Posted in [mergetime] 1348828376 [/ mergetime]
What we have not tested:
The test simulates a car coup, is common in the United States, but rare in Europe. This led to the fact that the passenger capsules of American cars have become safer and sensors catching time of the fall of the car, set nominally.
Also, rear-end collision is rarely tested in Europe. Magazine Auto Bild has organized such a test with Toyota IQ in the past year. As a result of the collision, the rear passengers would get spine fractures in korotkobaznoy Toyota.
Adrian Lund demonstrates inside the wing Volvo S60 safety element which diverts oncoming car away from the cockpit at mutual tangential collision with a small overlap.
And finally a few more pictures
BMW 3 Series
Lexus iS250 / 350
Source:
Text AutoBild, the translation of the undersigned, the photo with spaces
AUDI A4 and Mercedes-Benz C-Class failed the tests conducted in the US, where the area of the collision is lisch quarter of the total width of the machine. The result is shocking, because it turns out that at present, many car collision is not safe
Before buying a car Florian Wieland inquired how many stars in the test car got EuroNCAP. This European research center with headquarters in Brussels awarded the previous version of the Hyundai i30 full 5 stars. Wieland took the decision to purchase. About a year he went, feeling safe until you hit with your family in an accident July 13, 2012.
The driver of the Volkswagen Golf noticed rotates Executive Volkswagen Phaeton, crashed into him, and pushed into oncoming traffic. Phaethon crashed into the front of casual Hyundai. Wieland says that the A- and B-pillar bent and the left front wheel and the engine drove into the passenger compartment to the radio. Dashboard Wieland shattered knee and left foot remained jammed. Fortunately, the pregnant wife of Wieland escaped with only minor injuries. Two weeks of lying in the hospital, Wieland thought about how similar could happen with a car, earn 5 stars in the test Euro NCAP.
The hard truth is that the head-on collision on a tangent is not investigated at all. Buyers are not provided with information about this or other types of collisions neissleduemyh. In Europe, for example, there is no test for rear impact (chain accident) or test turning. Also collision involving a small square in front of the (Small overlap) never studied anywhere in the world, is the North American Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, IIHS) has not taken it into their program.
The new test IIHS vehicle moving at a speed of 64 km / h, touches the obstacle only a quarter of the width of the front. As a result, the collision energy is concentrated on a small patch and a counter-party to the collision penetrates almost the entire depth of the hood. In Euro NCAP tests the frontal area of overlap is usually 40%, so the energy is absorbed more efficiently.
The new test has the effect of a cold shower for the German automotive industry. Of the four possible responses to the weakest «P» (poor - weak) got the Audi A4 and the Mercedes-Benz C-class. The BMW 3-series was rated better than only one item (Marginal - Marginal).
The bulk of the car is designed to calculate the average of the hood will take the lion's share of the collision energy, says Adrian Lund, IIHS head. If you have a collision on a narrow section of the left or right, from the energy-absorbing structures not persuasion. As a result, passengers are protected by an extremely weak. According to the research organization Development Association Automotive Medicine, the risk of serious injury in a collision with a small overlapping area is three-fold compared to the 100 percent head-on collision.
Posted in [mergetime] 1348828097 [/ mergetime]
Expert accidents, Professor Hans Boymler, sees the reason for the poor results of tests in the design error spars. -In Many models they are located too close to the center, to steer the front wheels was better, and turning radius of the machine accordingly less. Classic dispute comfort with safety.
Posted in [mergetime] 1348828150 [/ mergetime]
Volvo has passed the test with the American representative results - again. S60 received by all sections of the better estimate of «Good - Good." Among rear impact tests were and the coup. In a test with 25 per cent frontal overlap Volvo successfully managed through hidden in the wings of the guide. They have gone oncoming car to the side of the cab.
image losses of the German automotive industry is difficult to estimate, and a PR departments are not able to embellish reality. I try, they will cause the impression that deliberately downplaying the importance of safety.
Armin Yotts, a spokesman for Audi promises: "We take security very seriously. In the development of the latest test of the new A4 was still not known. But we will take it into account when developing new models »
According to statements by Audi of all alarms with a 25 percent overlap only 4% end in death or serious injury of participants. Also, a spokesman for Mercedes said that such collisions are rare. Strain identified in the American test, occur, he said, when faced with a tough obstacle. Oncoming cars such practice is not, and therefore less destructive consequences of a collision.
Posted in [mergetime] 1348828301 [/ mergetime]
Little relief for the Germans was that also the Japanese Lexus IS250 / 350 has received a test Small Overlap most lower estimate.
Posted in [mergetime] 1348828326 [/ mergetime]
As a result,
Accidents are very individual. Organizers crash tests have to choose what they will simulate a collision. We must not forget that when a certain result in the vehicle receives 5 stars, this is only half the truth. Absolute security does not exist. The five-star result is not life insurance. With the exception of Volvo, car manufacturers do not test their products more freely than in the volumes necessary for the passage of a specific crash test. It's sad but it's true.
Posted in [mergetime] 1348828376 [/ mergetime]
What we have not tested:
The test simulates a car coup, is common in the United States, but rare in Europe. This led to the fact that the passenger capsules of American cars have become safer and sensors catching time of the fall of the car, set nominally.
Also, rear-end collision is rarely tested in Europe. Magazine Auto Bild has organized such a test with Toyota IQ in the past year. As a result of the collision, the rear passengers would get spine fractures in korotkobaznoy Toyota.
Adrian Lund demonstrates inside the wing Volvo S60 safety element which diverts oncoming car away from the cockpit at mutual tangential collision with a small overlap.
And finally a few more pictures
BMW 3 Series
Lexus iS250 / 350
Source: