Funny little car, better known under the name of slopes, long ago won a place in the sun. They do not need much space for parking, they will easily pass the small plugs, and to manage such a machine is not treyuuetsya driver's license. Further referring to its compactness, quad increasingly sadyat on your motor and no harmful emissions. That is, for example, G-Wiz, which could be the ideal choice for defenders of the environment. Could Only ... |

The tense silence. Loud buzz. We have a small car approaching. It seems that it goes very quickly, because everything happens in the room. It is with absolute certainty enters a dazzling set of lamps to meet a fixed goal. We reviewed records from all five cameras. When the form of how the car enters the barrier and inexorably flatten the driver's eyes climb on the forehead. One of our experts quietly said: «I am looking at these daily tests, but first I zatoshnilo»

Tibia of the dummy in driver's seat clamped, and the dummy had to pull out of parts - a separate torso, legs separately. Usually in EuroNCAP with manikins that does not happen. This could happen only in the early stages of testing. At the bottom of the front panel supporting it across the car idet metal timber. This beam can greatly crush tibia driver and passenger - the likelihood of bone fractures in the tibia is very high.

We bought a G-Wiz and paid for the crash test. EuroNCAP not test it because it is classified as a quad. This English distributor - the company GoinGreen - positioning him as "among the world's best-selling electric vehicles." In London, has sold about 850 pieces.

We chose a protocol EuroNCAP. But when the TRL, the test agency EuroNCAP, saw the G-Wir, they were told that the dummy filled with sensors for $ 300 000 is likely the end will come. Therefore, TRL used dummies with sensors. Otherwise, the test consisted of a frontal collision Standards EuroNCAP. The car loaded with equipment, recording data on the deceleration and deformation.

The car accelerates to 240-meter track pa cord. And in the last moment to release, and download it to a special wrinkle barrier to cellular skeleton. The barrier extends over 40% of the width of the car. Such a test "offset" a more realistic, because the machines are rarely encountered exactly the forehead on the forehead. Speed through impact - 64 km / h. Is it close to reality? Now 64 km / h - the maximum speed of G-Wiz, while preparing to release version with maksimalkoy at 72 km / h. The test simulates a collision of two vehicles: a static shot of the deformable barrier at 64 km / h equivalent to shock, which have two cars of equal weight with a head-on collision at a speed of 50 km / h. It is quite realistic, huh?

Around the doorways and other parts of the machine glued the black-and-white film. It helps to see what and how deformed. The film also kleitsya on the feet and hands of the dummy, to see where they have been affected by impact. At different parts of the body and is caused by the dummy's head striking a thick paint. In contact with the details of the passenger compartment, it leaves marks on them. Sounds last signal ...

In the salon includes a front panel, steering wheel and pedal unit. Center column pridvinulsya about 27bmm the driver. Based on his shift, the nature of deformation of rudder and the fact that the paint from the face of the dummy printed in the windscreen can be assumed that the wheel votknulsya in the driver's torso. Contact with such hard can cause serious or fatal injury.

They say that after this test dummies usually remain fairly decent condition. Techniques to open up the doors and removed them. But not today ... It took more than half, to extract the "driver" in parts. First, the body. Then the left leg. But right leg was able to pull out only after the seat is removed and the two man yanked her struggles.

Barrier splyuschen much less than usual, but the car turned into a heinous medley. At the shoot can be seen as the front of the driver, all cower and cringe, and has reason to regard the barrier windshield. Glass cracking and incurve. Wrinkle doorway, and small cars continue to skukozhivatsya. The head of the driver's beating on the bottom of windscreen. The driver's door break. "Passenger" is stuck in a door wedge ...

"In the crash-test at a speed of modern car door shim is extremely rare," - says the researcher from TRL James Meniing. Mannequins can bang on the rigid structure of the cabin, and it's dangerous, but a skeleton force to be safe. Now he is bursting with fall ... Legs driver push far back. At the level of the driver's and passenger's legs, ran hard steel beams. Together with the pedals, steering kolonkoi and different instruments, he rammed the lower limbs "water gel", and they votknulis in the compartment with the battery - on the floor potekla acid. Steel leg bone Manica, probably to prevent further deformation. A human would have simply crushed, causing a deadly heavy bleeding.

For this reason, normal cars steering columns and rudders are stringent not. In the G-Wiz helm of such a rigid, almost did not deform, going into the soft abdomen. In fact, he stopped only 10 cm from the back seat. And in this part of the human body is very vulnerable - for example, liver injury can cause severe internal bleeding.

The head of the dummy driver banged on the windscreen. There were fragments. Displacement of the front panel, steering column pedal node in the interior led to the dummy trap.

It is not clear how to pass the test to people who replace the dummies. Official results are always expressed verotyanosti language. But today, James Manning points to the most important area, chest, femur and pelvis. "When such damage appears to be lethal injury" ...

Yes, but it was a big accident. GoinGreen is trying to justify their offspring: say, in the small town of Speed. Buyers may think that this car is protected better than a motorcycle or bicycle. In the G-Wiz you will find on the streets and intersections with regular cars. Some vozyat its children to school - he is in fact the rear seats. And the head of children almost always comes back to the rear glass. Scary to think what would happen if someone vedet behind. Frame G-Wiz welded steel square tubes. There is not controlled by shear zones, nor the power of that channel impact energy to bypass the passengers. Do not attempt to remove the hard noticeably details away from people.

Therefore, the consequences of the accident, even at low speeds to be very serious. Yes, that assumption, but the hard timber under the front panel is situated so that even with "slow" collision but he hit the lower parts of legs. Steering column is not. The doors do not hold a side-kick and so on ...

Ppavoe dummy driver's knee hit] on the steering column and ignition corpus. This can lead to serious injury knee, hip and pelvis. The system of fixing the body, consisting of three-inertia belts, remained intact after the collision, but it is not known what pressure belt has had on the chest and therefore can not assess its effectiveness. Now cars are usually equipped with more sophisticated systems, including airbags, belts with prednatyazhitelyami and devices, limiting the pressure.

The little car can be made more secure! Here is a Smart or Aygo/107/Cl. They are slightly heavier G-Wiz and are slightly more expensive. The main difficulty in a small car - a durable protective frame of the passenger area. But it is not enough - at a small shear zone in front of the machine frame is short. When there are high shock overload. It is important to slowing the body using seat belts with force limiters prednatyazhitelyami and tension. Need airbag and, if possible, at the knee, soft upholstery and the front of racks, head, deformable steering wheel ... And properly designed footswitch compartment. In the G-Wiz, we did not find anything like this.