To counter concern that engineers sacrificed safety for fuel efficiency, Honda designed the hybrid with steel side-impact beams in each door, front crush zones and dual front and side airbags.
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"Without knowing what the report is and having all the proper testing, you don't know what the crush zones and G's \ Rgravitational loads \ S and all that stuff are,"
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In addition to a special steel reinforced body, the series car will be outfitted with airbags and has an " optimal crush zone " to minimize injuries in accidents, Brorsen said.
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:* You could'pretend'that the other car was stationary and you were going 200mph, and the crush zone was twice as long because both your car and the other one will crumple up equally.
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They say the car's vertical fuel tank, which first appeared in the 1966 Galaxy, is located within the car's " crush zone, " where it is prone to puncture, leakage and deadly fires in rear-impact crashes.
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A new " fat lip " bumper was designed to allow for an extended crush zone on the front of the frame, as well as new multi-parabola style headlights, projector style fog lamps, and updated side marker lights and front turn signals.
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In an underride collision, the car's crush zones designed to absorb collision energy are completely bypassed, and the airbags may not deploy in time because the car does not decelerate appreciably until the windshield and roof pillars have already impacted the trailer bed.
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Because of the height mismatch between a passenger car bumper and the much-higher height of the platform of a trailer, the car's protective crush zone becomes irrelevant and air bags are ineffective in protecting the car passengers, if the underride guard is missing or inadequate.
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Energy-absorbing crush zones are completely ineffective if they are physically bypassed; an extreme example of this occurs when the elevated platform of a tractor-trailer completely misses the front bumper of a passenger car, and first contact is with the glass windshield of the passenger compartment.
