Five Experimental Safety-Car Concepts – Feature

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Flavorless Lifesavers: These concepts helped shape a safer future.

In the early '70s, to encourage the development of safety  technology and determine future regulations, the U.S. Department of  Transportation offered carmakers contracts to build experimental safety vehicles (ESVs). The DOT established a number of challenging passive-safety targets, such as keeping occupants alive in a 50-mph crash into a solid barrier, as well as active-safety goals like braking from 60 mph in 155 feet or less. Many of  the ideas toyed with in those early ESVs ­eventually made it to production. But less clever notions—VW's ceiling-mounted blanket restraint comes to mind—languished on drawing boards. More recently, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz have created safety concepts that continue to advance occupant protection.

Keep Reading: Five Experimental Safety-Car Concepts – Feature

Tony Quiroga 22 Jun, 2011

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Source: http://www.caranddriver.com/features/11q2/five_experimental_safety-car_concepts-feature
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