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Polar II was born in 1998. It was the first dummy to simulate a car hitting a pedestrian. His task was to measure the consequences of such collisions for various parts of the body of a pedestrian hit by a car moving at a speed of 40 km / h.
At the moment of a real collision, this speed is shown by a car that usually slows down, and according to statistics, 50% of pedestrians die in such conditions.
The fruit of Honda's research and analysis is the improved shape of the new Odyssey and the structure of the skin, which absorbs kinetic energy and guarantees the least possible injury to pedestrians.
The car could not knock down a man of flesh and blood, but they made sure that the dummy had synthetic tendons, joints and a skeleton.
The latest generation dummy, dubbed "Polar II" by the Japanese, is not a stubborn puppet. The new mannequin is smart. It measures the impact of collisions at eight points that mimic the most important parts of the human body. All instruments are placed in the head, neck, chest and legs. The data transmitted to the computer is recalculated, which summarizes the results of many tests.
Recently, experiments have focused on reducing the effects of a collision on the knee and head of a pedestrian, depending on his height. Now the sensors are able to assess injuries to individual parts of the body. The tests vary depending on the size of the car.
Pedestrian dummies are currently used in Euro NCAP and US NHTSA crash tests. All new models now pass the Euro NCAP pedestrian crash test.
So far, the highest score, three stars, has been given to the Honda CR-V, Honda Civic, Honda Stream, Daihatsu Sirion and Mazda Premacy, and among European cars: VW Touran and MG TF.
