car safety kholmes tip2
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An interactive way to understand car safety features and design. For high school.TRANSCRIPT
Vehicle SafetyResearch & Design PJ
Egg Crasher
K. Holmes
2008
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Main Menu Design Brief
Select a vehicle to research Research:
Activity: List 10 safety features based on research findings Identify safety features in vehicle. How many stars does your vehicle have? Watch Crash Dummies video.
How’s it work? All around safety design features Take the Car Safety Quiz
Project Design: Activity: Egg Crasher Vehicle
Select a vehicle to “model” Research facts Incorporate safety features to be tested Create PPT & Safety Poster
Standards & Objectives List of Videos & Websites
Use this as the main menu to help you
navigate through this quest.
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Get Briefed
Select your vehicle’s maker to Research & Design a specific make & year: Ex: Mazda 6 2007
Audi BMWChevrolet ChryslerFord GMCHonda HyundaiLexus MazdaNissan Toyota
Congratulations! You have been hired by your favorite car/truck company! Your job is to ensure that safety features are well designed and implemented. It is very important to recognize and evaluate different types of safety features and systems within vehicles today. Customers are not going to purchase vehicles if the crash rating is low! Your salary depends on how well your research and design proves to be. Will your car survive the crash and earn you a 98K salary?
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What’s in YOUR Car?
U.S. Transportation Secretary said “the number of people killed in traffic crashes is expected to reach a new record low in 2008,with projections showing an almost 10 percent drop in highway traffic deaths over these first 10 months of 2008.” Reported data shows that 31,110 people died on US roads from January through October 2008, compared to 34,502 in 2007.
WHY?
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Engineers are continuously redesigning, reevaluating and inventing vehicle safety features. Many of these accidents happen within minutes of home. Many can be prevented by simply buckling up, but how else?
…why
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Vehicle Safety Websites
1. http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/
2. http://www.safercar.gov/
3. http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/list/top10/114984/article.html
Use Google to find more!
You are done with Part 1
Check out these websites to learn more about the engineering history of safety in vehicles:
Standards
Objectives:
1. Evaluate different vehicle safety designs provided by the D-TLA Vehicle Safety PPT.
2. Use the technology design process to create a safe vehicle that protects the egg from breaking.
3. Demonstrate understanding of AutoCAD Inventor to draw vehicle templates.
4. Be an active participant in group work
Evaluation:
Safety ResearchEgg Crasher Design
Drawings Model
Group workPPT class presentationEC: Safety Poster
PA Standards:
PA-3.2.10.D- Identify and apply the technological design process to solve problems
PA-3.7.10C-Apply basic computer operations and concepts
PA-1.6.11D-Participate in discussions
National Standard:
Standard 17: Students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use information and communication technologies.
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Egg Crasher Vehicle Design
Procedure:1. Sketch a vehicle design that
incorporates at least 3 safety features.
2. Draw templates in Inventor & print out.
3. Build your vehicle.4. Test your vehicle on the track.5. Redesign if needed.6. Create a presentation for your
safety vehicle to earn your $$!
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Begin only after researching vehicle safety features.
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All Around SafetyExterior Features
Interior Features
MechanicalFeatures
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How many stars does your vehicle have? Click star to research.
Future Car SafetyClick me to learn more about
these forms of safety!
Smart Car
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Car Safety Quiz
• Sponsored by HowStuffWorks.com• See how much you’ve learned about Car
Safety!
Click brain to take quiz
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How Many Stars?
Frontal Driver: 5 stars Frontal Passenger: 5 stars Side Driver: 4 stars Side Passenger: 4 stars Rollover: 5 stars
Vehicle Safety Ratings
Mazda 6 2009
Locate your vehicles’ safety rating
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Exterior
Click to learn more about each:• Bumpers• Crumple Zones #1• Crumple Zones #2• Lights• Color
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Interior
Click to learn more about each:• Seatbelts• Airbags• Tempered Safety Glass• Sleepy Sensors
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Mechanical
• Horn• Anti-locking Brake Sy
stem• Electronic
stabilization
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Click to learn more about each:
Complete this worksheet as you go though this entire lesson.
Soon you will learn how safety systems are evaluated in safety tests. Crash Dummies are used to simulate human beings.
Research
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Hi! I’m Crash. I will tell you all bout crash dummies and testing procedures. Did you know that seat belts weren’t in cars until 1970? Airbags were offered
in 1985!
Crash Dummies
Click video to learn about crash dummies and how technology has changed!
Click me to see it first
hand!
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Mid-Size vs. CompactWatch 2 brief videos on crash results for different sized vehicles. Notice how the safety featuresprotect passengers and drivers. Why are cars safer in 2009? Does this testing prove to be worthwhile?
Who is safer? Click
to see.
Watch 7 small
cars be tested.
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You are done with Part 2
Website Review Crash Dummy Advertisement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5h2NF2xMYI&feature=player_embedded
Hummer crash results. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COGBQ7QXqyc
Smart Car Crash Test. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s&feature=player_embedded
Seven Small Car tests 2009. http://usat.gannett.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/1/site/gannett-usatoday-206-pub01-live/1.713/launch.html?maven_playerId=immersiveproduction&maven_referralPlaylistId=8e268cb11203908ddaf61de8af24b4e3f6b392e8&maven_referralObject=969002620
Car Safety Ratings. http://carsafetyratings.org/ HowStuffWorks. www.howstuffworks.com
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