Car Safety ResearchPart 1 – Crash Car project

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Main Menu Design Brief

Select a vehicle to research

Research: Activity: List 10 safety features based on research findings How many stars does your vehicle have? Watch Crash Dummies video.

How’s it work? All around safety design features Take the Car Safety Quiz

Project Design: Activity: Egg Crasher Vehicle

Draw a sketch of a car for the crash car project Build a model of your car with a partner Crash test the car with an egg driver on the test track

Standards & Objectives List of Videos & Websites

Use this as the main menu to help you navigate through this project.

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Get Briefed

Select your vehicle’s maker to Research & Design a specific make & year: Ex: Mazda 6 2007

Audi BMW

Chevrolet Chrysler

Ford GMC

Honda Hyundai

Lexus Mazda

Nissan Toyota

Congratulations! You have been hired by your favorite car/truck company! Your job is to ensure that safety features are well designed and implemented. It is very important to recognize and evaluate different types of safety features and systems within vehicles today. Customers are not going to purchase vehicles if the crash rating is low! Your salary depends on how well your research and design proves to be. Will your car survive the crash and earn you a 98K salary?

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What’s in YOUR Car? An estimated 2.31 million people were injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2013, down 2.1 percent from 2.36 in 2012.

Car safety ratings sites click here

WHY?

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Engineers are continuously redesigning, reevaluating and inventing vehicle safety features. Many of these accidents happen within minutes of home. Many can be prevented by simply buckling up, but how else?

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Vehicle Safety Websites

1. http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

2. http://www.safercar.gov/

3. http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/list/top10/114984/article.html

Use Google to find more!

You are done with Part 1

Check out these websites to learn more about the engineering history of safety in vehicles: