We’ll be frank — we have some of the coolest jobs out there. But the engineers at car safety labs might have it even better than we do. How much stress can you carry if you can crash a pickup truck into a wall once a day?
We’re amazed they don’t charge to let people in. For a fee, you could spray paint the names of your stressors onto a Buick and hit the button to send it flying into thousands of pounds of steel. They’d all be millionaires. The heaviest vehicle the IIHS ever tested, Arbelaez says, is a larger electric SUV, the 2019 Audi e-tron. That vehicle, as tested, was “under 6,000 pounds.” But, he says, “some of these electric vehicles that have been advertised as coming in the next few years” are significantly heavier, “one as high as 9,500 pounds.”
Engineers needed to ensure that their equipment could get a 9,500-pound vehicle up to 40 mph in the 600 feet allotted before it hit the test barrier.
Never thought about the engine providing protection. 🤔
Push the bar higher. Its always what's the 'next level'. There's no end point, no final score, no ultimate boundaries, just higher and higher ✅
Get in an accident, and you may burn to death?
Tesla has the highest safety
why not use NASCAR standards for all vehicles?