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Restraint System
One of the long tradition of Mercedes-Benz is the requirement of the universal reliability requirements for each body throughout his long life in any extreme road and climatic conditions. Therefore, even in a laboratory box is checked comprehensively. To test the program are long-term tests not only the carrier of the body, but also components such as doors, hood locks and sunroof. On vibratory stands are 70-hour driving loads that normally occur only after 200,000 kilometers on bad roads. However, the "road" test structures and parts Mercedes ?�run?� in the year, about 25 million km in extreme road and climatic conditions. But it is not an end in itself. In the first place - the security of people sitting inside. In the field of vehicle safety the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class meets the highest requirements. The optimized body structure with large deformation zones this car - the most secure in the world. Each year, more than 100 bodies should be subject to stringent tests emergency. This checked the main types of accidents: 1. Collision type off-set (head-on) with oncoming traffic, where 40% of the front of the vehicle involved in the collision. According to statistics of accidents of this type of head-on collisions - the most common. 2. Beat in the side. 3. An accident with rollover crashes. 4. The collision with a heavy obstacle (trees, street lights, truck or bus).
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