On the 23rd (local time), it is reported that the Genesis GV80, which was driven by Tiger Woods, has barely been damaged in the event of a rollover accident, and interest in the safety of the car is growing.
LA Police said in an accident briefing that the car’s airbags were working properly and the interior of the car was basically undamaged.
The GV80 is equipped with 10 airbags, including the first application of a center side airbag in the front seat to prevent head injuries and collisions between occupants in the event of an accident.
The global automobile industry is striving to increase vehicle safety.
Mercedes-Benz established the Automotive Safety Technology Center (TFS) in 2015 and is conducting more than 15,000 simulations and more than 150 crash tests for vehicles just before mass production.
The center is also conducting various tests to improve the safety of pure electric vehicles such as EQC.
Benz explained that it is using a prototype equipped with a large electric battery to conduct safety tests in cold or crash environments of minus 35 degrees Celsius.
Porsche recently unveiled the durability test process of its first crossover utility vehicle (CUV) model, the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo, emphasizing safety.
Porsche has conducted tests in a variety of environments, such as driving 998,000,361 km, which is 25 laps of the earth in an off-road environment, and developed a vehicle that can drive safely regardless of weather conditions by applying the same test program to electric vehicles. He said he was doing.
Sweden’s Volvo, which is called’the synonym for safety’, has been running the’Safety Center Collision Institute’ for 20 years.
The Safety Center Collision Research Center is a place that reproduces extreme traffic accidents to improve vehicle safety, and is known to conduct crash tests with an average of one car scrapped every day.
Volvo’s safety was re-examined in July of last year due to an accident in which the XC90, on which the couple of announcers Park Ji-yoon and Choi Dong-seok, collided with a reverse-driving truck. At that time, the vehicle was greatly damaged, but the occupants were avoided seriously.
Hyundai Motor, which has been constantly experiencing quality issues such as a series of fires from Kona Electric Vehicles (EVs), seems to be more focused on safety issues.
On the 23rd, Hyundai Motor Company emphasized that it minimized the deformation of the passenger compartment in the event of a collision by applying a collision load distribution structure to the front of the vehicle at the first unveiling of the electric vehicle platform-based’Ioniq 5′.
It also explained that aluminum reinforcement was applied to the battery protection section at the bottom of the vehicle for battery safety, and the cooling block was removed to prevent coolant from flowing into the battery.
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