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Dressed in a blue t-shirt and shorts, man medium is surrounded in luxury Tesla Model S for a short trip to an abrupt end.
The collision sounded like an explosion and left the virgin electric car destroyed, glass and debris scattered in the sad remains.
The man - a packaged technology, 180 Crash test dummy books 80 kg - has been the victim of a single car accident at 40 miles per hour to 65 km / h in a solid wall.
But the destruction is for the good of dummy sensors send a wide range of data to show how he fared.
They say how and how fast the head and body hit the steering wheel; the extent to which the airbag cushioning the shock; how the seat belt worked; and whether other parts of the body was injured.
The results are used by automakers to make vehicles safer, and the process has significantly reduced the number of deaths in traffic accidents.
safety tests have allowed automakers to make vehicles safer and significantly reduces the number of deaths, but contemporary driving habits are challenging traditional efforts.
But contemporary driving habits are challenging traditional efforts to maintain the mortality rate on a downward path.
In 2015, deaths from traffic experienced the highest increase since 1966, and were even in the first half of 2016, climbing more than 10 percent, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Distracted driving, including texting or talking on a cell phone while driving, accounted for over 3000 deaths in 2014, with over 400 000 injured, said NHTSA.
Automakers need to understand how to avoid accidents due to things like driver inattention said Joseph Noland, senior vice president of research vehicles to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Car manufacturers add features such as electronic stability control, collision warning and brake before autonomous emergency.
These technologies are coming very, very quickly, and our studies show that many of them are very effective, Noland told AFP.
But test these new technologies will really be a challenge for us, he said.
Among the new technological features, IIHS tests so far only the automatic emergency braking.
IIHS, which is funded by the insurance industry, and NHTSA, a federal agency, are the only organizations in the US that perform crash tests.
With a budget of just over 5 million in the 80 high-speed accidents, it performs every year IIHS estimates that its test programs have contributed to a dramatic decline in mortality rate of death was reduced by more than half between 1990 and 2012, only 65 per every one million vehicles 143.
We review the types of accidents that are injuring and killing people in real time on the roads, and we are developing tests to replicate.
The test that was used for the Tesla Model S, was a small overlap crash test introduced in 2012 to simulate an accident in a post or a tree IIHS says many automakers have struggled with it.
The Tesla Model S has received the highest rating of good in the initial test late last year, so the company asked a retest manufacturer must earn good ratings in all five crash tests to be considered as an IIHS Top Safety pick.
In the test last year, the driver hit the steering wheel hard, because the seat belt wound too far, says IIHS Tesla has made changes to the design of vehicles built after October in an effort to solve problems.
For the tests, the IIHS technicians send the car down a 1,400-foot tunnel 430 meters pulled by a cable, a system similar to a ski lift and just before impact, it is released from its home.
To the casual observer, the accident Tesla had the terrifying air, but the IIHS analysis will not be available for a week or two, at which point it will be clear if Tesla was able to resolve the fault and get better coveted rating .
Jack R Nerad, VP criticism Car Kelley Blue Book, told AFP security clearances are essential for automakers because consumers are attracted to vehicles safer.
They changed car design very, very significant from the second they first hit the computer screen, the ratings are very important.
Car enthusiasts would be driven to tears by the carnage on the screen at the IIHS test center in Virginia Rural Central, two hours south of Washington, in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
There are smashed cars, trucks and SUVs aligned throughout the building, including a classic 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air, which was shattered in 2009 Chevrolet Malibu SUFFICE say the Bel Air is fun to watch, but not safe to drive.
The Institute works with other national regulatory bodies through the Global Assessment Program for New cars trying to lead to design changes in the world.
The need to improve security in other countries has been demonstrated dramatically when in October IIHS crashes a Mexican-made Nissan Tsuru - essentially the same as 1992 in the United States is Nissan Sentra - 2016 Nissan Versa, a first choice of safety.
The result for the Tsuru driver without airbags or modern structural improvements, was devastating days before the test was to take place, Nissan announced it was suspending production of this model, frequently used by Mexican taxi drivers.
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