Honda FR-V Safety Guide
Car accidents are unpredictable and each one is different. This is why we wanted to be able to put our cars through the most rigorous safety tests and study the outcome of thousands of different scenarios. But we couldn’t find anywhere to do this that met our standards and requirements – so we built our own facility. It’s the largest indoor crash test centre in the world, and it enables us to test our vehicles from all possible angles. Because anything can happen in real life. But as well as the cars we wanted to look at the people involved in accidents – how we could ensure the safety of pedestrians as well as passengers. That’s why we developed the POLAR II pedestrian crash test dummy. The world’s most sophisticated unit of its kind, it’s the closest anyone has come to replicating the real reactions of the human body in a crash scenario.
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