00:00Ein neuer Crash-Test des Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, IHS, zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie stark sich die Fahrzeugsicherheit in den
00:08vergangenen 30 Jahren weiterentwickelt hat.
00:10Dabei prallt ein Chevrolet Blazer aus dem Modelljahr 1996 frontal mit einem Chevrolet Blazer des Modelljahres 2026 zusammen.
00:19Während das ältere SUV mit Leiterrahmen deutlich größere Schäden erleidet, profitiert das moderne Crossover von einer selbsttragenden Karosserie, fortschrittlichen Materialien,
00:30computergestützter Entwicklung und jahrzehntelanger Sicherheitsforschung.
00:35Laut IHS schneiden die meisten aktuellen Fahrzeuge in den hauseigenen Crash-Tests inzwischen sehr gut ab, weil Hersteller ihre Modelle
00:43kontinuierlich verbessert haben.
00:44Das IHS startete sein eigenes Testprogramm 1995, nachdem staatliche Crash-Tests reale Unfallsituationen nicht ausreichend abbildeten.
00:54Später kamen Seitenaufprall, Überschlags- und weitere Frontaltests hinzu.
01:00Diese Maßnahmen sollen bereits fast 50.000 Menschenleben gerettet und gesellschaftliche Kosten in Höhe von rund einer halben Billion Dollar
01:07vermieden haben.
01:09Beim Vergleich bleibt der Innenraum des Chevrolet Blazer 2026 weitgehend intakt, während der Fahrgastraum des Modells von 1996 massiv kollabiert
01:20und den Dummies schweren Belastungen aussetzt.
01:23The vast majority of vehicles sold today do really well in all of the Institute's original Crash-Test programs.
01:31This is great news for consumers, and it's only possible because the insurance industry has funded IHS to do this
01:39work consistently for the past 30 years,
01:41and the automakers have responded to the testing by improving their designs.
01:47What prompted us to begin this testing in 1995 was that our research showed that the types of crashes that
01:54were seriously injuring and killing people in the real world
01:57were not reflected in the federal regulatory testing requirements.
02:01We began running these tests on our own to be able to provide that information directly to consumers.
02:07We continued to go back to the field data and look at what types of crashes are seriously injuring and
02:13killing people,
02:14and we subsequently developed a side impact test, a rollover test,
02:20and then we even circled back and did two more frontal crash tests to fully round out the protection of
02:26occupants for crash-worthiness.
02:30Nearly 50,000 lives have been saved by the changes that the automakers have made as a result of these
02:36crash test programs since we instituted our first test.
02:40These numbers aren't just statistics. These lives saved are real people, friends, family, neighbors, who made it home after a
02:49crash.
02:50It also represents about a half a trillion dollars of societal economic benefit.
02:55We recently conducted a special crash test between a 1996 and a 2026 Chevy Blazer
03:03to show their dramatic improvements in crash-worthiness over our 30 years of testing.
03:11The new Blazer did very, very well.
03:14All of the crash energy was absorbed up front where it should be, and that kept the occupant compartment intact.
03:20This occupant was going to walk out of this vehicle with very little risk of injury.
03:25This vehicle, on the other hand, had massive occupant compartment collapse.
03:30There's no room for the dummy's legs, and the instrument panel and the steering wheel came back so hard
03:36that it hit the dummy in the head, and it actually broke the head off the dummy in this crash
03:42test.
03:42Nowadays, nearly all vehicles perform like the 2026 model,
03:47where we can expect people to be able to walk out of that vehicle unharmed.
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