Volvo

Accelerometers Help Volvo Improve Car Safety

The name of Volvo is synonymous with car safety. The new Volvo Cars Safety Centre at Gothenburg, Sweden, incorporates facilities that make it the only one of its type in the world.

Its opening a year ago has significantly increased the capacity to perform up to 450 full-scale collision safety tests per year, and its state-of-the-art facilities enable Volvo to make a number of new, unique, advanced tests which provide great quantities of data.

Accelerometers are used to measure the forces of impacts in car safety tests (up to 2000 g), and an average of 80 accelerometers are used during each test, although up to 200 can be used in special circumstances.

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