SCODA INTERNATIONAL SAFETY DAY : SAFETY FEATURES IN ACTION

                                     

Safety for both occupant and pedestrian has become a very crucial aspect for automobile manufactures around the world and none can deny that when it come to safety Scoda Auto is right up there with the best of them. With over 100 specialist employed at the Company’s Technical center at Mlada Boleslav working on various safety aspect of Scoda car including a Traffic Safety Research team which monitors and evaluate road accident in real world it is no surprise that Scoda’s car such as the Roomster , Superb and Yeti have all score the highest possible 5 star rating in the euro NCAP crash test.

The Scoda International Day was an event foe media from across Europe and Asia to get up close with safety expert from Scoda and even see some of the car safety feature and action and absorb a live crash test between two of the company car’s.

Imagine the scenario : a vehicle is traveling on a 2-lane highway at about 90km/h. the driver begins to doze off his vehicle veers into incoming traffic. Another car in opposite lane pull as much to the side of the road as possible and brakes to the halt. But a crash is in unavoidable and the earlier car plows into the latter at the offset heat an angle. Not what u might call totally uncommon scenario. The crash took place between a stationary Scoda Superb Combi and a Scoda Yeti which was moving at 90km/h under its own engine power.

Both the car has two adult sized crashed tests dummies in the back as well. Following the crash, official form the local free department did a quick inspection of the crash area, ensure that it was safe to technician to approach after which specialist from Scoda Traffic Safety Research team began to collect data for the various sensor attached to the car and the crash test dummies. The team also made a 3D scan of the accident site which would later be fed into crash simulation software.

 While Scoda engineer analyzed the data from the crash, the media representative were taking through various workshop with expert from different field of automotive safety. The workshop includes one which explained the various tools and methodology us by member of the Traffic Research Safety team to collect data from real life crash sides while another focused on both the Active and Passive safety features which come build into Scoda’s car.

There was also a workshop which spoke about Scoda Auto’s efforts to educate people about the aspect of road safety and demonstrated Scoda playful a website design to inculcated road and traffic sense in children. One of the most enjoyable activities though was the Test Drive workshop where the journalist could drive a few Scoda cars around the test course and put the car’s various electronic safety programmers to the test.