Those working at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety can’t afford to slack at all with what they do; it’s the nature of their job, and the accuracy and long-term relevance of their work depends on it always going as planned.
That, of course, needs a heck of a lot of preparation work, all of which has been detailed in this official video uploaded on the IIHS channel.
It starts of at the very beginning of the procedure with a general inspection of the car that’s about to be crashed, making sure it works and hasn’t been involved in a previous accident, and only then do they start fitting sensors to it, and adding the dummy.
Cameras are also very important, or rather their placement which needs to be exactly the same test after test, to make comparing the results (and videos) a worthwhile exercise. The car is even rolled slowly up to the crash barrier every time in order to make sure the cameras are in focus.
This is just a small part of what goes on, and for the rest, scroll down and click play.
By Andrei Nedelea
