Test Dummies get smarter: Crash
Given that the mission of the Blendend cars in the walls of their crash-test a sort of rear-hand plant science, its main measuring instrument - the Crash Test Dummy - a little more than a man , To a large doll family very humanoid meat and bone synthetic.
“If this activity began there are about 40 years, people were happy, if we simply registered their chest and does not violate the head, because it’s like people killed,” said Nagarajan Rangarajan, Chairman of a crash-test dummy company GESAC Inc., Boonsboro, Maryland. “Now, humans do a good job to avoid serious injuries, as part of a normal racing accident, but we have injuries to the leg and on the face Is not life-threatening danger, but it costs a lot of money to resolve. ”
The economic costs of car accidents and implementation of a recent car manufacturers that security was sold to global dissemination of crash tests and research programs funded by both governments and the private sector.
More than 400000 people were killed and 12 million injured in road accidents throughout the world each year. In the USA alone, auto injury costs $ 150 billion per year, according to the Department of Transportation.
But one of the disadvantages of this crash-test-boom is an implication of the dummy test standards and concepts, it led to an uneven level of security and increased costs for car manufacturers to spend money to a large number of crash-test - Standards.
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