Sometimes life hangs by a thread!
The Swedish manufacturer Volvo, which has set itself the ambition of no longer deploring any deaths on board its models within a few years, threw ten new cars suspended from a crane 30 meters high into the void.
These more violent shocks than in a conventional crash test simulate a collision involving a single car at very high speed, a high speed collision between a car and a truck or a severe side impact inflicted on a private car. .
Volvo accident research teams have been served.
The objective of simulating the damage to the vehicles and the emergency scenarios to be implemented to extract the passengers as quickly as possible has been fulfilled.
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These drills are of great importance to Volvo because not only do these crashes usually take place in the laboratory and rescuers usually train with scrapped and often over twenty years old vehicles but never with new ones.
For the first time, Volvo carried out these crashes with models designed with high-strength steels and equipped with the latest passive safety technologies.
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Designed as a real training session, these tests made it possible to validate the best extrication strategies using hydraulic devices known in the jargon "jaws of survival".
In total, Volvo threw ten vehicles off the crane several times.
Prior to that, Volvo engineers accurately calculated the pressure and force each car had to be subjected to to achieve the desired level of damage.
Note that this is not the first time that a manufacturer has released a vehicle from a crane.
Porsche had lent itself to the exercise in the early 1960s with a 904 GTS.
Porsche
