Later that year, in dramatic fashion, he demonstrated its ability to withstand crashes when he emerged unharmed from a pile-up at Monza.
A vehicle's ability to withstand crashes from the front, side and rear are regulated, because these are the main causes of deaths in cars.
That's partially because, as this blog has explained before, safety rules promulgated by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) require American passenger trains to be heavy enough to withstand crashes with giant freight trains.
It is also unlikely, given the Kursk's double-hulled design intended to withstand crashes or torpedoes, that a collision alone could have caused the damage that doomed the Kursk, the officials and experts said.
The 12 Amagansett middle-school students who visited Robotech for the third time on a rainy April day weren't quite so advanced but they were getting the hang of building machines that could withstand crashes.
An even bigger impediment has been the high cost of building and maintaining turbines in a harsh marine environment, where equipment must be fortified to withstand crashing waves, hurricane winds, corrosive salt and, in the case of the Great Lakes, winter ice.
Probability calculations could be refined to take into account how different bodies withstand crashes.
The all too predictable result was more mayhem on the highways, since these cars were less able to withstand crashes and rollovers.
The rear camera took a few tries to get right, according to Sobral, since finding a way to fix the camera in the required position, while still ensuring it could withstand crashes and bumps turned out to be a challenge.
The reactor is encased in reinforced concrete several feet thick, probably enough, the industry contends, to withstand a crash.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday that reactors at new nuclear power plants must be designed to withstand the crash of a commercial jetliner.
