redwolf3000

Sorry to drag this one back up again, but as I work in the crash testing industry I would just like to pick up on a couple of points. To imply that NCAP testing is not real life because the car is hitting steel and concrete is factually incorrect. The industry has spent millions of pounds and several decades of research to establish that the test used in NCAP rating is very realistic. The car is not hitting several tonnes of steel and concrete, it is hitting a very carefully sized piece of especially produced deformable substrate that behaves exactly like hitting another vehicle of the same size and weight, as the impacting vehicle. The impact is also not full frontal, it is a 40% offset so that the strongest part of the cars chassis structure is dealing with the crash energies. This deformable is changed for every test, and is cut and positioned differently for every different vehicle type that is tested. Also, to say that being in a Galaxy you will be better off when crashing into a typical sized car, than you would be if you were in a similar sized vehicle as the other involved in the crash, is also factually inaccurate. The NCAP tests are based around a car hitting another car of the same size and weight, this is the industry standard test, so certainly newer vehicles are built especially to perform well in this test. That means that when the car is involved in a crash with a different size vehicle it will behave in a manner that is not described during an NCAP test. This may mean that the car will ride up over a smaller car, thus you will get far more pedal area intrusioon resulting in lower leg and foot injuries not found in NCAP test. The car may ride under the bumper of a bigger vehicle causing abnormal incursion into the occupant compartment, causing crush injuries not seen in NCAP testing. If the vehicles crash in any other configuration than a 40% offset then the strongest part of the chassis may not be dealing with the energies so they will dissipate differently and possibly cause more injuries to the occupants. There are hundreds of different types of crash and only in one of them will the vehicle behave the same way as in the NCAP test.

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