You think, what are the odds? But what you may not realize is that there’s an average 3,287 deaths due to car crash every day. This is the reason why car manufacturers spend money on crash tests among other things in car production. Crash tests could mean the difference between life and death.
So, if you’re currently looking for a car to purchase, you might want to consider a manufacturer that takes their crash test seriously. Car grooming services in Singapore are good when your car needs a touch up, but it’s also wise to take the actual car’s quality into consideration.
While there’s probably some truth about crash tests as just an excuse for engineers to smash things to see what happens, there are still a lot of innovative and life-saving ideas that come out of it.
But they’re also a fascinating part of a carmaker’s work that has yielded concrete, life-saving results — Toyota says traffic fatalities crept up in Japan during the 1980s as the vehicle population climbed, only to fall again once stricter crash test standards were introduced. So here are some of the things they learned.
Most Collisions That Happen Are Almost Always Due To Speeding
Most of the time, speeding is involved in car accidents. Despite that, many motorists seem to take this for granted since speeding is still prevalent on the road. Let’s understand more about this issue and hopefully realize the importance of paying attention to the speed limit. This is because there are a lot of reasons that makes people speed up like being tailgated, always in a hurry, not knowing the speed limit in the area, peer pressure, and even trying to get through yellow lights. But you’d also be surprised to know that some people’s measurements when it comes to stopping distances are always off.
You may be thinking that you could hit the brake quickly when you need to. The thing is, you may be surprised that it actually takes time. Yes you could step on it fast, but it may not be fast enough to prevent a collision. Stopping distance is actually a total of:
Thinking distance—distance traveled while the driver notices the hazard and applied the brake and;
Braking distance—distance traveled before the vehicle comes to a full stop.
Future Safety Improvements Are Made With The Help Of Crash Tests
Right now (and in the foreseeable future) the emphasis on safety equipment is to make airbags "smarter." The most recent advancement in safety equipment is known as a smart air bag. These airbags can deploy with different speeds and pressures, depending on the weight and seating position of the occupant, and also on the intensity of the crash.
In the future, we'll see seat belts that will also sense the weight and position of occupants and adjust the tension and maximum force accordingly. Technology is enabling carmakers to design and manufacture safer, smarter vehicles, and consumers clearly endorse this trend as reflected in buying patterns. It may take wrecking lots of cars and crash test dummies, but the information gained from automotive crash tests means you and your loved ones may survive an automobile accident with little or no injury.
The Crash Test Sounds Like A Bomb Just Exploded
The ones portrayed in the movies are hardly comparable to the deafening blast the crash test makes. It’s not even due to the metal and glass, but the airbags going off literally sounds like a bomb going off because airbag inflators use powerful explosives!
They Kind Of Exaggerate It A Bit
Toyota today does its own 90km/h smash. Unrealistic? Not really. When you come to think of it, it’s actually better to try for the worst case scenario so car manufacturers can improve their car’s quality. This way the vehicle doesn’t easily get damaged even at the slightest impact. But then car grooming is still a good idea even for a few scratches.
Each Crash Dummy Costs S$1.3 Million
Yeah, that’s an awful lot of money. But quality comes with a price, especially where cars are involved. Knowing that simply suggest the production budget of the movie Thor since that’s the price for the most expensive THOR dummy.
Sometimes Carmakers Use More Than One Dummy A Day
Heart breaking, I know, but that’s just on big carmakers. Toyota at technical centers worldwide, for that matter, smashes an average of four new vehicles a day. That’s a lot of tiny i-Road to full-size Toyota Lorries going in one day.
They Include Virtual Dead Bodies In The Test
THUMS or Total Human Model for Safety is a piece of software developed by Toyota. It acts like “body” during a crash test to gain information that will help improve safety of any driver or passenger in case of a collision.
A lot of car crashes could have been avoided if the market has come up with the car safety feature backup collision intervention/auto stop sooner. Detecting what’s behind you, hearing an audible alert and seeing a flashing light indicating its oncoming direction, and a system that counteracts failure to act by pushing back on the accelerator could have not just saved lives but as well as the 0 and trouble. But with the help of crash tests more and more information will be learned and who knows, we might just live in a world where collisions hardly ever happens— hopefully.
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