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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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