Car Crash test

Car Crash tests are conducted in the laboratory, whose goal is to check the cars passive safety systems. During the time when the test takes place, there is a high frame per second video recording (1000 fps) of the impact – and signals from the sensors placed on board the car and on the mannequins themselves. After completing the test, the data is analyzed in detail.

Various Types of car crash tests

1. Front impact - a car speeding up to 64 km / h (in some tests 55 km / h - the U.S. and Japan) hits a deformable barrier.
2. Side impact - the car is stationary. The car is struck by a speeding “vehicle” with a speed of 50 km / h. The hit occurs in the driver's door at the height of his waist, and the passenger sitting in the rear rows.
3. ESC Fitment – The car rides on a trolley, and impacts on it’s side by with rigid, narrow pole.
4. Collision with pedestrians - the hood of the car hit a speed of 40 km / h attached to a special crane, is the head, lower thigh and the thigh of the dummy.
5. Overturning the car (called rollover) - a car speeding up to 50 km / h invades the right side of the small driveway resulting in capsizing and roofing.
6. Collision with a moose - a speeding car to 70-80 km / h strikes a form corresponding to the dimensions and weight of adult moose. Tests are performed in Sweden.
7. Collision with an elephant - Concrete ball impacts the car - a test carried out in Africa
   

Crash tests are performed in Europe by an independent organization (the European New Car Assessment Program) Euro-NCAP. The simplified results are made available to the public in the form of ranking. Crash tests are carried out in other parts of the world by other organizations, such as the U.S. NHTSA and IIHS, the Australian ANCAP, or Japanese Nasva.