Do you ever have this feeling when you see a car undergoing crash test?
Congratulations, Lexus! The Euro NCAP (European New Car Assessment Programme) has recently awarded the all-new Lexus RX a 5-star rating for safety, as reported here on Paul Tan.
In keeping with the times, the newer the car, the more safety gadgets it gets. In the 80s, automobile crash tests mainly assessed for crumple zone structural rigidity, the effectiveness of seat belt pretensioners and (if you were lucky enough) your car came with airbags - they would test the speed of deployment of these as well.
Now, though, crash assessment tests demand far more insights into a car's behaviour under sudden impact. They look for how a car's bonnet softens the blow to a pedestrian's head (quite macabre, methinks), how the leading edge of the front number cushions the contact impact from a pedestrian's upper and lower leg and whether a vehicle's pre-collision anti-crash braking systems work as they should.
I still can't get past the pedestrian head part...
By the end of these tests, the 2015 Lexus RX scored the maximum safety ratings. Look at the video below and you'll be impressed at how, upon frontal collision, the front driver and passenger doors retain their shape.
Lexus, you're amazing! See the video below for the test in full.
Cheers!
All Lexus
Congratulations, Lexus! The Euro NCAP (European New Car Assessment Programme) has recently awarded the all-new Lexus RX a 5-star rating for safety, as reported here on Paul Tan.
In keeping with the times, the newer the car, the more safety gadgets it gets. In the 80s, automobile crash tests mainly assessed for crumple zone structural rigidity, the effectiveness of seat belt pretensioners and (if you were lucky enough) your car came with airbags - they would test the speed of deployment of these as well.
Now, though, crash assessment tests demand far more insights into a car's behaviour under sudden impact. They look for how a car's bonnet softens the blow to a pedestrian's head (quite macabre, methinks), how the leading edge of the front number cushions the contact impact from a pedestrian's upper and lower leg and whether a vehicle's pre-collision anti-crash braking systems work as they should.
I still can't get past the pedestrian head part...
By the end of these tests, the 2015 Lexus RX scored the maximum safety ratings. Look at the video below and you'll be impressed at how, upon frontal collision, the front driver and passenger doors retain their shape.
Lexus, you're amazing! See the video below for the test in full.
Cheers!
All Lexus
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