Ten years with the crash-test laboratory
The Accident Research Team shares an anniversary with the Volvo Cars Safety Centre, which is celebrating ten years since of operation. On March 29, 2000, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf inaugurated the centre, which is still one of the most advanced facilities of its kind in the world.
Since its establishment, every new Volvo model has undergone between 100 and 150 different crash tests in the laboratory to test a variety of accident scenarios, and even before the car exists as a physical object it will already have been tested thousands of times as a prototype using virtual simulators.
A total of about 3000 physical crash tests have been carried out in the laboratory since its inauguration in 2000. All this work aims at ensuring that the vehicle's various safety systems interact as intended and provide effective protection for all the car's occupants, irrespective of their size, at various speeds and in various accident scenarios. The tests supplement the accident research carried out in the field by the Accident Research Team.
The Accident Research Team shares an anniversary with the Volvo Cars Safety Centre, which is celebrating ten years since of operation. On March 29, 2000, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf inaugurated the centre, which is still one of the most advanced facilities of its kind in the world.
Since its establishment, every new Volvo model has undergone between 100 and 150 different crash tests in the laboratory to test a variety of accident scenarios, and even before the car exists as a physical object it will already have been tested thousands of times as a prototype using virtual simulators.
A total of about 3000 physical crash tests have been carried out in the laboratory since its inauguration in 2000. All this work aims at ensuring that the vehicle's various safety systems interact as intended and provide effective protection for all the car's occupants, irrespective of their size, at various speeds and in various accident scenarios. The tests supplement the accident research carried out in the field by the Accident Research Team.
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