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Automotive Safety Ratings 2017 Tesla, BMW electric cars fail to make the Top list In Crash Test.
Manufacturer of electric vehicles Tesla Motors has garnered negative publicity during the last year for accidents involving its self-driving technology, at least one that was fatal, but more recently its poor performance S model in a crash test Typically, according to security clearances published Wednesday.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which produces a list of the best performing crash tests every year, left the S model in its 2017 list of large luxury sedans in the top security choice of category, includes dozens of model year missing was electric car, the BMW i3.
Arlington, nonprofit organization based in Virginia, which is funded by auto insurers said the S model scored well in four of five categories of crash safety IIHS, but has won only when acceptable rating the seat belt of the test dummy allowed jerk his head forward so it forces pierced the front airbag and hit the steering wheel.
The measures manikin said the head injuries, as well as the bottom of the right leg would be possible in a crash in the real world the same gravity, the IIHS said in a press release the organization noted the criterion applied to cars built after October, and that the company, led by the south African inventor Elon Musk made a production change on January 23 to resolve the problem Tesla confirmed that he had solved the problem, and wrote in an email that it would be beefing up its accident safety even further with an automatic emergency shutdown function, which will be deployed as an update in the coming weeks over-the-air software.
The S model also performed poorly when it came to the force of its roof and its flagship, which received a rating of poor.
As for the i3, the BMW model has earned an acceptable rating for its inability to protect drivers from neck injuries, which, while rarely fatal, can lead to debilitating pain, the IIHS said again, Vice- Executive Chairman of the organization president David Zuby, said in the release that drivers are too shouldn t worried.
There's no reason for the most efficient vehicles can t also among the safest, he said that we hope Tesla and BMW continue to refine the designs of their electric models to maximize protection of the driver and, particularly in the case of Tesla, improve their headlights.
In better news for Tesla, the State Administration of road safety Tesla allowed of any wrongdoing in the fatal crash of May 2016 the S model, which used improved function partially autonomous Autopilot.
The autopilot system is an ADAS driving assistance system that requires continuous and complete attention of the driver to monitor the traffic environment and be ready to take steps to prevent accidents, the NHTSA said in a Jan. 19 note on the closure of its investigation, adding that the system is not completely autonomous, but relies on drivers who responded to alerts and other visual cues.
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