The Crash Test: A Critical Safety Assessment

As we embark on this critical safety assessment, it's essential to understand the objective of the crash test. The goal is to evaluate the car's ability to protect its occupants in the event of an accident. To achieve this, the team designed a unique sled system that would propel the car at high speeds into a pole, simulating a real-world crash scenario.

The Sled System: A Marvel of Engineering

The sled system is a marvel of engineering, comprising a cable mounted to the sled and powered by a hydraulic motor. This allows for smooth acceleration, ensuring a precise speed before impact. The system's design enables the sled to release the car two meters before the pole, allowing it to free-wheel into the impact zone. This setup provides an accurate representation of the crash test scenario.

Preparing for the Crash Test

Before initiating the crash test, the team ensured that the dummy was properly positioned and secured. They also applied a layer of paint to the dummy's face, which would display on the airbag deployment footage. Additionally, they installed a small nail centrally on the post, marked with a white line on the side of the car. This setup would later be used to measure the accuracy of the crash test results.

The Crash Test: A Critical Moment

With the sled in position, Marcus initiated the crash test by turning on the engine. As the car accelerated towards the pole, the team held their breaths, waiting for the impact. The car crashed into the pole with considerable force, but remarkably, the nail remained centered on the white line. This indicated that the crash test had achieved its primary objective: to assess the car's safety features.

Assessing the Damage

After the crash, the team began to inspect the damage. They were pleased to find that the carbon fibers on the door had cracked, but the tub was relatively undamaged. The side window had also shattered, but the windscreen remained intact, with only minor cracks. Most significantly, the airbag deployed effectively, and the dummy's painted face showed minimal signs of impact.

The Post-Crash Inspection

As the team continued their inspection, they found that the passenger door could be opened with relative ease, despite being damaged in the crash test. They also discovered that the inside of the car was relatively well-protected, with only minor damage to the carbon tub. The marks on the airbag and dummy face provided valuable insights into the impact zone.

The Results: A Resounding Success

The team's anticipation turned to excitement as they reviewed the results. To their delight, the dummy remained green, indicating that the car had passed all crash tests required for its sale. In fact, it exceeded the targets set by Rimac, the company behind this remarkable safety feature. This was a testament to the team's dedication and expertise in designing a truly exceptional safety system.

A Word of Appreciation

As we conclude this article, we extend our gratitude to those who contributed to this critical safety assessment. Engineers from remote worked tirelessly to ensure that every aspect of the crash test was meticulously planned and executed. Their hard work paid off, resulting in a resounding success that will undoubtedly contribute to the car's safety profile.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is a remark novera it's an electric powered hyper car and it costs 2 million euros it's got almost 2 000 horsepower so i'm going to launch it here we go from north to 32 kilometers an hour sideways straight into this pole because i'm matt watson and you're watching car wow buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one-stop car buying comparison site let's start this video by me explaining exactly what's going on here because i'm not just crashing this car for lols what's happening is the very last crash test this car has to complete before it can be sold in europe and in the united states and it's a pole test it's actually for the u.s market this one so it's gonna be accelerated on this sled into this pole at 32 kilometers an hour now they've already done a crash test like this but with a smaller dummy than the one we've got in here this one is for the average sized dummy welcome to the control center for the crash test so we've got the car there on the sled you can see the different camera angles up there and on this computer as well but i'm going to use this system to actually initiate the test and to do that i'm going to just turn this key here select the test i want up here click do i want it yeah i do there was a little noise which sounded a bit like someone farting it's a warning sound that the crash test is live and then all i have to do is turn that key and i'll slam the car into that pole but there's something we need to do first i'd like to introduce you to my family of crash test dummies these are the guys who sacrifice themselves in the interest of your safety so what we have here are some frontal impact dummies they have arms to hold the steering wheel so it's realistic now over here we have the crash test dummy that is going to be used in the crash or similar this is called a euro sid said being side impact doesn't need the arms because they're not holding a steering wheel that's not important it's how the impact affects their head because they're crashing into a pole so far rimac has performed 44 crash tests on the navera and this will be the 45th the very last one for that they've used 10 different cars prototypes and pre-series this is a pre-serious car now you might be thinking wait a minute 10 cars but 45 crash tests how does that work well they can use one car for multiple tests so you start off with a light test and then you can increase the severity of the test until you can't crash test the car anymore this particular car here has been crashed before in a frontal impact that's why this bit of trims like hanging off there's a big dent here in this metal structure and there's been weights added to the car to add the weight back in from the bits of trim that have been removed you might be wondering why the heck continental don't they make tyres it doesn't appear that they make them for the navera because these are michelins it's a bit awkward however continental do make the airbags for the navera and that's why they've got this test facility so when we crash this car we're going to film it in slow motion for about half a second so 500 milliseconds however the airbag will decide to deploy in less than 10 milliseconds and it'll actually inflate within 20 milliseconds reason being it needs to be fully inflated before there is the maximum amount of energy going into the dummy so the worst part of the accident and that happens around 50 milliseconds in now back to the crash test proper now the 45 that rimac has performed five of her european law to be able to sell the car in europe then there's 22 for the u.s market so they do a few more variables one of which is the fact that you have to crash test the car with the dummies wearing a seatbelt and not wearing a seat belt because in some states you don't have to wear a seat belt in a car i mean that's just nuts isn't it now the remainder of the crash test there are some other tests that rimac want to do to just make sure their car is nice and safe they're not required by law i tell you why it's all a bit confusing really isn't it as is this amount of wires we've got here so essentially this car is fitted with about 100 sensors there's some in the dummy some on the car and then they're all having to be recorded and processed by this electrical gubbins here then there's a bunch of cameras as well there's two high-speed cameras in the car there's some others dotted about the place to record things externally and that's what this unit does here now as well as physically crashing the cars into stuff such as that remake also runs a load of simulations to see how the coal will actually behave in an accident in a wide range of different crash scenarios though that's not exactly easy either because it can take a month to actually set up the program to run the crash simulation because you've got to put in about a million different parameters and then once you've set all your parameters and you want the computer to calculate it it can take a real high spec supercomputer 20 hours to do the math to work out what will happen now to ensure the calculations are accurate rimac actually compares the data from those to real life crash tests such as this and what they've found is that they're getting about a 98 correlation between their simulations and the real world which is highly accurate manufacturers don't just use these expensive crash tests just so they can tick a box to legally be allowed to sell their car in a certain market they use it for ongoing development of their vehicle for instance in a previous poll crash test rimac discovered that by just making this armrest extend out by 20 millimeters in the side impact it can cause the occupant to rotate slightly like that so the head is moved away from the point of impact they also made a bit softer as well so it's a bit more cushioning while they did that they also made the seats softer not for any crash test reasons just for comfort before we launch i've got to put the car into position so i've got to take it 40 meters down that way so we can accelerate it into the pole so i'm just going to use this to get in position make sure it's safe here we go i'm totally in control of this all is well people what well i'm steering a bit wonky here oh whoa whoa whoa whoa there we go i think that should be far enough now before we do this i should just explain how this whole sled system works so basically you've got a cable there which is mounted to the sled the cab itself is actually powered by a hydraulic motor because you can build up acceleration nice and smoothly rather than snatching up the car what it'll do is propel this sled all the way down there then two meters before the pole where it's about to crash it releases the sled so it's not being pulled into the pole it's free wheeling into it so you get a real exact speed before we crash test i need to paint the dummy a little bit okay nice there we go this will show up on the airbag and show exactly how it deployed and how the dummy interacted with it and maybe a bit of yellow there we are darling looking beautiful looking beautiful maybe a little bit on the edge look at that look a bit more blue yeah lovely one last thing to show before we crash the car this nail is mounted centrally on this post there's a white line on the side of the car and after the test they'll measure up to see how close this now is to the white line to see how accurate they were or should that be i was a launch in the car okay we're ready to do the crash test now so we've got marcus here he's going to initiate the test and then i'm going to take over so god let's do it after we're starting turn the key here we go here it comes let's go check out the damage so here is the car has been crashed quite a bit of damage first thing i want to check though the nail went in the center of the line that was an accurate crash the carbon fibers are cracked on the door and it's all shattered down here underneath the tub will be damaged but they should be able to repair that i mean you're going to want to try and repair a car that costs 2 million euros obviously the side window's all cracked amazingly the windscreen hasn't shattered into pieces it's still in place the airbag went off the dummy it's quite quiet but looks alright we'll get the data back on the dummy in a moment there is one thing we need to do the regulations state that you have to be able to open one door on one row obviously this is a two seater so you need to be able to open a door that one might be a bit hard to open but can this one open yep that opens no problem at all looks like a pass okay so we've actually got the passenger door open it opened pretty easily just have to remove a few bits of trim which is just snagging it open fine you can see down here the damage to the carbon tub it's cracked there remarkably the inside is relatively well intact so that's provided a lot of protection you can see the marks as well from the dummy that i painted on earlier on the air bag showing where the head contacted but you need to see the data now see what that says here we go then i've got the results here and the good news is that the dummy is all green which means that this car has passed the crash test in fact it's passed all of the crash tests which are required for it to be sold now it's not only past the legal limit it's actually beaten the target that rimac set for the car so it's even safer than they'd hoped what a good result i hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like what do you think about the crash test let me know in the comments below now if you work for remote you're probably commenting matt um you know it was really impressive that the door that was crashed opened even after the crash test apparently um some engineers were watching while we were filming it and they're like tell matt that the doors don't normally open after you crash tested the car so that was impressive anyway if you wanna watch more videos click on those windows there and if you click on that box there you can sell your car through car wow our dealers will bid on your car to make sure you get a great price for it thanks for watchingthis is a remark novera it's an electric powered hyper car and it costs 2 million euros it's got almost 2 000 horsepower so i'm going to launch it here we go from north to 32 kilometers an hour sideways straight into this pole because i'm matt watson and you're watching car wow buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one-stop car buying comparison site let's start this video by me explaining exactly what's going on here because i'm not just crashing this car for lols what's happening is the very last crash test this car has to complete before it can be sold in europe and in the united states and it's a pole test it's actually for the u.s market this one so it's gonna be accelerated on this sled into this pole at 32 kilometers an hour now they've already done a crash test like this but with a smaller dummy than the one we've got in here this one is for the average sized dummy welcome to the control center for the crash test so we've got the car there on the sled you can see the different camera angles up there and on this computer as well but i'm going to use this system to actually initiate the test and to do that i'm going to just turn this key here select the test i want up here click do i want it yeah i do there was a little noise which sounded a bit like someone farting it's a warning sound that the crash test is live and then all i have to do is turn that key and i'll slam the car into that pole but there's something we need to do first i'd like to introduce you to my family of crash test dummies these are the guys who sacrifice themselves in the interest of your safety so what we have here are some frontal impact dummies they have arms to hold the steering wheel so it's realistic now over here we have the crash test dummy that is going to be used in the crash or similar this is called a euro sid said being side impact doesn't need the arms because they're not holding a steering wheel that's not important it's how the impact affects their head because they're crashing into a pole so far rimac has performed 44 crash tests on the navera and this will be the 45th the very last one for that they've used 10 different cars prototypes and pre-series this is a pre-serious car now you might be thinking wait a minute 10 cars but 45 crash tests how does that work well they can use one car for multiple tests so you start off with a light test and then you can increase the severity of the test until you can't crash test the car anymore this particular car here has been crashed before in a frontal impact that's why this bit of trims like hanging off there's a big dent here in this metal structure and there's been weights added to the car to add the weight back in from the bits of trim that have been removed you might be wondering why the heck continental don't they make tyres it doesn't appear that they make them for the navera because these are michelins it's a bit awkward however continental do make the airbags for the navera and that's why they've got this test facility so when we crash this car we're going to film it in slow motion for about half a second so 500 milliseconds however the airbag will decide to deploy in less than 10 milliseconds and it'll actually inflate within 20 milliseconds reason being it needs to be fully inflated before there is the maximum amount of energy going into the dummy so the worst part of the accident and that happens around 50 milliseconds in now back to the crash test proper now the 45 that rimac has performed five of her european law to be able to sell the car in europe then there's 22 for the u.s market so they do a few more variables one of which is the fact that you have to crash test the car with the dummies wearing a seatbelt and not wearing a seat belt because in some states you don't have to wear a seat belt in a car i mean that's just nuts isn't it now the remainder of the crash test there are some other tests that rimac want to do to just make sure their car is nice and safe they're not required by law i tell you why it's all a bit confusing really isn't it as is this amount of wires we've got here so essentially this car is fitted with about 100 sensors there's some in the dummy some on the car and then they're all having to be recorded and processed by this electrical gubbins here then there's a bunch of cameras as well there's two high-speed cameras in the car there's some others dotted about the place to record things externally and that's what this unit does here now as well as physically crashing the cars into stuff such as that remake also runs a load of simulations to see how the coal will actually behave in an accident in a wide range of different crash scenarios though that's not exactly easy either because it can take a month to actually set up the program to run the crash simulation because you've got to put in about a million different parameters and then once you've set all your parameters and you want the computer to calculate it it can take a real high spec supercomputer 20 hours to do the math to work out what will happen now to ensure the calculations are accurate rimac actually compares the data from those to real life crash tests such as this and what they've found is that they're getting about a 98 correlation between their simulations and the real world which is highly accurate manufacturers don't just use these expensive crash tests just so they can tick a box to legally be allowed to sell their car in a certain market they use it for ongoing development of their vehicle for instance in a previous poll crash test rimac discovered that by just making this armrest extend out by 20 millimeters in the side impact it can cause the occupant to rotate slightly like that so the head is moved away from the point of impact they also made a bit softer as well so it's a bit more cushioning while they did that they also made the seats softer not for any crash test reasons just for comfort before we launch i've got to put the car into position so i've got to take it 40 meters down that way so we can accelerate it into the pole so i'm just going to use this to get in position make sure it's safe here we go i'm totally in control of this all is well people what well i'm steering a bit wonky here oh whoa whoa whoa whoa there we go i think that should be far enough now before we do this i should just explain how this whole sled system works so basically you've got a cable there which is mounted to the sled the cab itself is actually powered by a hydraulic motor because you can build up acceleration nice and smoothly rather than snatching up the car what it'll do is propel this sled all the way down there then two meters before the pole where it's about to crash it releases the sled so it's not being pulled into the pole it's free wheeling into it so you get a real exact speed before we crash test i need to paint the dummy a little bit okay nice there we go this will show up on the airbag and show exactly how it deployed and how the dummy interacted with it and maybe a bit of yellow there we are darling looking beautiful looking beautiful maybe a little bit on the edge look at that look a bit more blue yeah lovely one last thing to show before we crash the car this nail is mounted centrally on this post there's a white line on the side of the car and after the test they'll measure up to see how close this now is to the white line to see how accurate they were or should that be i was a launch in the car okay we're ready to do the crash test now so we've got marcus here he's going to initiate the test and then i'm going to take over so god let's do it after we're starting turn the key here we go here it comes let's go check out the damage so here is the car has been crashed quite a bit of damage first thing i want to check though the nail went in the center of the line that was an accurate crash the carbon fibers are cracked on the door and it's all shattered down here underneath the tub will be damaged but they should be able to repair that i mean you're going to want to try and repair a car that costs 2 million euros obviously the side window's all cracked amazingly the windscreen hasn't shattered into pieces it's still in place the airbag went off the dummy it's quite quiet but looks alright we'll get the data back on the dummy in a moment there is one thing we need to do the regulations state that you have to be able to open one door on one row obviously this is a two seater so you need to be able to open a door that one might be a bit hard to open but can this one open yep that opens no problem at all looks like a pass okay so we've actually got the passenger door open it opened pretty easily just have to remove a few bits of trim which is just snagging it open fine you can see down here the damage to the carbon tub it's cracked there remarkably the inside is relatively well intact so that's provided a lot of protection you can see the marks as well from the dummy that i painted on earlier on the air bag showing where the head contacted but you need to see the data now see what that says here we go then i've got the results here and the good news is that the dummy is all green which means that this car has passed the crash test in fact it's passed all of the crash tests which are required for it to be sold now it's not only past the legal limit it's actually beaten the target that rimac set for the car so it's even safer than they'd hoped what a good result i hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like what do you think about the crash test let me know in the comments below now if you work for remote you're probably commenting matt um you know it was really impressive that the door that was crashed opened even after the crash test apparently um some engineers were watching while we were filming it and they're like tell matt that the doors don't normally open after you crash tested the car so that was impressive anyway if you wanna watch more videos click on those windows there and if you click on that box there you can sell your car through car wow our dealers will bid on your car to make sure you get a great price for it thanks for watching\n"