Other smart touches include a cross beam set to car height, to help absorb the impact in a side collision.
Physics, meaning that the Passat GLX, which has four-wheel drive but rides at a normal car height, can outmaneuver any SUV within $20,000 of its price range.
Also, although you might think the Element looks tippy, it has a very low floor, keeping the center of gravity at car height.
But the insurance institute found that the car-height bumpers and impact-absorbing front end of the M-Class did little good during frontal crash tests with 1996 Ford Taurus sedans, and the Mercedes vehicle still inflicted fairly serious head, neck and chest injuries on a crash dummy in the Taurus.
Mr. Nakamura also pointed to the Altima's C-pillar kink as an element his designers added to make the car's height seem lower.
I don't like cliffs or sheer drops, or skiing, or cable cars, or heights, so I'm still not sure how I ended up, in the rapidly fading light of an autumn afternoon in Innsbruck, slowly inching my way down a mountain path in inappropriate footwear, and wishing I were dead.
Four parameters are varied (convective heat release rate per unit area, fire source area, car park height and car park width).
A day trip around the region's forested hairpins to the summit of Monte Ceppo left the exterior garnished with twigs and sick, and a shopping run led to a nasty scrape – metaphorical, Bernie, metaphorical – with a car-park height-restriction bar.
Open image in new window Figure 1 Layout of the full-car vehicle height adjustment system of EAS.
A nonlinear mechanism model of the full-car vehicle height adjustment system is established to reflect the system dynamic behaviors and to derive the system optimal control law.
