With the continuous development of mainland automobile culture, crash test results have become an important consideration for consumers when choosing a car, after all, it will be directly related to the safety of personal life and property. However, the standards of crash tests vary from agency to agency, and the results obtained by the same model sometimes vary greatly.
For example, the NCAP (New Car Assessment Programme), the new car evaluation procedure, was first implemented by the NHTSA (United States Highway Safety Administration) in 1979, and later extended to many other countries and regions, and the naming convention is "country (region) + NCAP". One of the most authoritative is the E-NCAP (Eu NCAP), of course, the most famous in the mainland is naturally the C-NCAP established by china Automobile Research Institute.
However, in addition to NHTSA, there is another agency in the United States, IIHS (American Highway Safety Insurance Association), which was invested by the American Automobile Insurance Company as early as 1959 to study the safety of commercially available passenger vehicles and car supplies, so as to reduce the incidence of traffic accidents, as well as personal injuries and property losses in accidents. On the basis of fully drawing on the experience of IIHS, China Insurance Research Institute has formulated the "C-IASI (China Insurance Automobile Safety Index)" test and evaluation system.
So which crash test is more demanding and the results more convincing? To give a set of examples: C-NCAP focuses on simulating common traffic accidents, with reference to E-NCAP, which performs a 40% overlapping deformable barrier crash test on the vehicle, while C-IASI "copied" the IIHS test method, simulating a more extreme traffic accident, which would perform a 25% bias crash test on the vehicle to avoid the front impact beam.
Presumably, there should be a sort in everyone's mind now, right?
In recent years, IIHS in the United States has also been tightening evaluation standards to promote the production of safer vehicles by manufacturers. In the recent 2022 safety assessment, to receive the TSP award, the vehicle needs to get "Good" in all 6 impact tests, and the active safety test and light test also need to get high scores. If you want to win the highest award of TSP+, there are more stringent requirements for the vehicle lighting system, and even the child seat anchor is in the assessment project.
How, is it difficult to get TSP and TSP+? It can only be said that it is not necessarily true, which is like the childhood class teacher randomly checking the back text (IIHS is to buy a vehicle for testing at his own expense), the poor students are nervous to "die" for fear of being called, and the top students are eager to take the opportunity to show their strength - such as subaru we are going to talk about today.
This year, six of Subaru's 2022 models won awards at IIHS, 4 of which received TSP+ and 2 received TSP. Among them, Legacy has won TSP or higher for 17 consecutive years, Outback for 14 consecutive years, Impreza for 15 consecutive years, and XV (Us version for Crosstrek) for 11 consecutive years.
Since the IIHS's top award was upgraded from TSP to TSP+ in 2013, Subaru models have received a total of 61 TSP+, the highest number of single brands. You know, compared with many overseas brands, Subaru's product line is the most streamlined, but it has got the most TSP+, which is really "not giving face to peers".
It's all compulsory, so why are you the only subaru kids so good? Is it crazy to secretly study after going home? Needless to say, in terms of security, the Subaru family does have a unique set of secrets.
Subaru's safety concept originated from the manufacture of aircraft, the vehicle uses a high-strength ring frame, not only using higher tension steel, but also rethinking the way the frame absorbs the collision energy, dividing the path of absorbing energy into three parts, and finally increasing the collision energy absorption rate by about 40%.
For the protection of occupants in the car, subaru models are equipped with a seat belt lock function, which can immediately fix the body of the driver and occupants when a collision occurs. When the seat airbag is opened, it can effectively prevent the occupant's body from sinking, and raise the leg to prevent the body from moving forward, thereby alleviating the damage to the human body in all directions.
In the test results released by IIHS, Subaru's unique EyeSight driver assistance system was also mentioned. In addition to the automatic emergency braking function that the test focuses on, EyeSight also has the "Emergency Automatic Steering Assist Function", which greatly improves the possibility of avoiding collisions through steering assistance, and the functions such as "Driver Monitoring System DMS" and "Lane CenterIng/Forward Vehicle Steering" can greatly reduce the driving burden caused by frequent operations during traffic congestion in real driving.
To get TSP+, you also need to get the plus points for the lighting test. The Subaru model uses a matrix adaptive LED lighting system, through 12 high-precision beams, the high beam range and illumination time can be automatically adjusted, at night or in the field can always ensure good lighting effects, but also to avoid glare to the driver of the vehicle in front.
Of course, if you want to become a "three good students", you must be all-round development. In addition to having a sturdy body, clever system and sharp headlights, ensuring a good view inside the car is also a key design focus of Subaru. The subaru model's front windshield has a very wide field of view, and the A-pillar triangular window design also helps the driver quickly detect potential hazards. The position and angle of each screen are carefully designed to minimize line of sight movement. In addition, the overall interior style of the Subaru family also shows calmness, bringing visible and tangible peace of mind and comfort to the drivers and passengers.
The Subaru family is such a "technical house", quietly winning countless amazing results, but rarely showing off too much. Now, in addition to knowing the horizontal opposition, WRX, BRZ, everyone should also know Subaru's "big guy" status in the field of security, right?
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