Door Side Impact Protection
Mmi door 36 in.
Door side impact protection. The effort resulted in the four tangible improvements in side impact protection that are evaluated in this report. Side impact protection system sips is a passive safety system in an automobile to protect against injury in a side collision developed by volvo cars. S1 scope and purpose. Without door beams there is little keeping a passenger from the point of impact.
It has been standard on every new volvo since. A left side impact and the right front passenger in a right side impact. Upgrading the side structure of passenger cars to slow down and reduce the extent of door intrusion into the passenger compartment after a side impact. Perhaps one of the most critical areas in terms of safety features in cars is the passenger s protection in side impacts.
Severe weather right hand low e impact glass full lite clear primed fiberglass prehung front door. The purpose of this standard is to reduce the risk of serious and fatal injury to occupants of passenger cars multipurpose passenger vehicles trucks and buses in side impacts by specifying strength requirements for side doors limiting the forces. Sips was first introduced in 1991 for the volvo 700 900 and 850 series cars of model year 1992. When a crash results from a side impact door beams can help protect passengers.
The side impact protection system has been improved by putting energy absorbing materials in the doors pillars subframe rails roof and seats of vehicles.