Skoda International Safety Day: Safety features in action
Safety , for both occupants and pedestrians, has become a very crucial aspect for automobile manufacturers around the world, and none can deny that when it comes to safety, Skoda Auto is right up there with the best of them. With over 100 specialists employed at the company's Technical Center at Mlada Boleslav working on various safety aspects of Skoda cars, including a Traffic Safety Research team which monitors and evaluates road accidents in the real world, it is no surprise that Skoda's cars such as the Roomster, Superb and Yeti have all scored the highest possible 5-star rating in the Euro NCAP crash tests.
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The Skoda International Safety Day was an event for media from across Europe and Asia to get up close with safety experts from Skoda and even see some of the cars' safety features in action and observe a live crash test between two of the company's cars.
Imagine this scenario: a vehicle is travelling on a 2-lane highway at about 90km/h. The driver begins to doze off and his vehicle veers into oncoming traffic. Another car in the opposite lane pulls as much to the side of the road as possible and brakes to a halt. But a crash is unavoidable and the earlier car plows into the latter at an offset head-on angle. Not what you might call a totally uncommon scenario. The crash took place between a stationary Skoda Superb Combi and a Skoda Yeti which was moving at 90km/h under its own engine power.
Both the cars had two adult sized crash test dummies in the front and two child sized crash test dummies in the back as well. Following the crash, officials from the local fire department did a quick inspection of the crash area, ensuring that it was safe for technicians to approach, after which specialists from Skoda's Traffic Safety Research team began to collect data from the various sensors attached to the cars and the crash test dummies. The team also made a 3D scan of the accident site which would later be fed into the crash simulation software.
While Skoda's engineers analysed the data from the crash, the media representatives were taken through various workshops with experts from different fields of automotive safety. The workshops included one which explained the various tools and methodologies used by members of the Traffic Safety Research team to collect data from real life crash sites, while another focused on both the Active and Passive safety features which come built into Skoda's cars.
There was also a workshop which spoke about Skoda Auto's efforts to educate people about the aspects of road safety and demonstrated Skoda Playful, a website designed to inculcate road and traffic sense in children. One of the most enjoyable activities though was the Test Drive workshop where the journalists could drive a few Skoda cars around a test course and put the cars' various electronic safety programmes to the test.
All in all, the event was a great way to educate us on the various automotive features which most seem to take for granted and also one that will keep reminding us to buckle up each time we sit in a car.
Imagine this scenario: a vehicle is travelling on a 2-lane highway at about 90km/h. The driver begins to doze off and his vehicle veers into oncoming traffic. Another car in the opposite lane pulls as much to the side of the road as possible and brakes to a halt. But a crash is unavoidable and the earlier car plows into the latter at an offset head-on angle. Not what you might call a totally uncommon scenario. The crash took place between a stationary Skoda Superb Combi and a Skoda Yeti which was moving at 90km/h under its own engine power.
Both the cars had two adult sized crash test dummies in the front and two child sized crash test dummies in the back as well. Following the crash, officials from the local fire department did a quick inspection of the crash area, ensuring that it was safe for technicians to approach, after which specialists from Skoda's Traffic Safety Research team began to collect data from the various sensors attached to the cars and the crash test dummies. The team also made a 3D scan of the accident site which would later be fed into the crash simulation software.
While Skoda's engineers analysed the data from the crash, the media representatives were taken through various workshops with experts from different fields of automotive safety. The workshops included one which explained the various tools and methodologies used by members of the Traffic Safety Research team to collect data from real life crash sites, while another focused on both the Active and Passive safety features which come built into Skoda's cars.
There was also a workshop which spoke about Skoda Auto's efforts to educate people about the aspects of road safety and demonstrated Skoda Playful, a website designed to inculcate road and traffic sense in children. One of the most enjoyable activities though was the Test Drive workshop where the journalists could drive a few Skoda cars around a test course and put the cars' various electronic safety programmes to the test.
All in all, the event was a great way to educate us on the various automotive features which most seem to take for granted and also one that will keep reminding us to buckle up each time we sit in a car.
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