Many Brazilian car bodies also don't contain crumple zones, areas that absorb energy during wrecks.
Its main crash-test building yanks a car across the floor while high-speed cameras record every crumple.
Would you crumple under the weight of knowing death might soon be at your doorstep?
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And many drivers simply value perks such as alloy wheels and sound systems over unseen crumple zones.
Just as fenders crumple during a car wreck, so the Kamchatka Peninsula surface is buckling with mountain ranges.
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But German confidence has begun to crumple under the weight of an increasingly outdated and rigid economy, which was once the envy of Europe.
Mercedes says the 1959 220S was the first passenger car in the world to feature a dedicated crash structure around the cabin, replete with crumple zones.
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Dietrich says the Transition has the safety cage, airbags, crumple zones and pretension seat belts required in street-legal cars, which then make the plane especially safe to fly.
It would certainly be hugely damaging for the ICC, and for global peace and justice, if the council were seen simply to crumple at threats from the latest thug-in-a-high-place.
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In addition to thinking about the public's unceasing appetite for digital devices, Mr. Kane now must design chairs that won't crumple under the weight of an increasingly heavy population.
So the U.S. auto industry let foreign competitors like Volvo and Mercedes-Benz take the lead in adding features such as three-point seat belts, crumple zones, and side air bags.
Contestants tear apart and restuff their vehicles with hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of amps, batteries and subwoofers that can produce a sound wave forceful enough to crumple your lungs.
Replacing steel with aluminium allows additional interior space to be offered, along with larger crumple zones at the front and rear for even better crash protection, all without paying a heavy penalty in fuel consumption.
Expect styling to come to the fore, as vehicle design is less influenced by safety considerations like visibility, window placement, strength and stiffness of materials, bumpers, crumple zones, collapsible steering columns, air bags, seat belts, and padding.
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Go back just a few more days, to last Friday, and there was another report that the Obama campaign would like to crumple up: U.S. durable-goods orders dropped by 0.4 percent in July, excluding the volatile transportation sector.
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