Roll-over simulator

It's no good waiting until you have an accident before your realize the importance of using seat belts, driving position, and keeping cool when trouble starts. This simulator helps students understand the importance of these things by giving them the chance to experience a car overtuning and overtuned.

The loses to a company through traffic accidents caused by its staff are immeasurable and include temporary loss of labor, soaring medical costs, and a leap in car-insurance premiums. HERS Inc. offers original driver safety training courses tailored to the size of your company and number of employees. Our lessons using the roll-over simulator do not require a lot of space and will prove popular with your staff.

90-degree roll simulation

180-degree roll simulation


Corse explanation

This roll-over simulator (using a Nissan March) was created for our course by the SONPO Safety Driving School (sponsor: Marine & Fire Insurance Association of Japan, Inc.). The simulator, the first in Japan to use a real car, enables students to safely experience what it is like to be inside a car while its rolling over and while its upside down.

Overview
The simulator platform is placed under the car chassis and the entire car is tipped over slowly to simulate a roll-over car crash. The rotation can be stopped and locked in at any angle. The simulator electric motor draws a 100-volt household current so the roll-over simulation location is not limited by the need to access a special power source.

Effects
When the roll-over simulator banks the car (to about 20 degrees) the students find out that their seat belts do indeed work in way to save their life that they never dreamt possible. The students can experience the protective function of seat belts even in cases where the car rolls over completely. The students learn that seat belts work under these extreme conditions and this help them to fully understand their importance.

Even though the wearing of seat belts in rear passenger seats is not required under Japanese law, the simulator helps students understand why wearing them even in the back seat of cars is necessary. For parents, the simulator raises their level of awareness of the importance of seat belts in child safety (children often ride in the back seats of cars), as well as the correct fitting of child car seats (such car seats were recently made compulsory under Japanese law). The simulator is also an effective tool for helping student understand the relationship between seat belts and supplemental restraintsystem (SRS) airbags.

Course progress and curriculum
Course progress and instruction is carried out by full-time instructors in an easy-to-understand manner, enhancing the level of interest and comprehension of course participants.

- 90-degree roll simulation :
Students experience the way that their seat belt hold them when the car is inclined laterally. The software listed below must be installed to allow the viewing of moving images.

Please install "QuickTime",before you watch this movie.

QuickTime
-180-degree roll simulation :
Students find out how their seat belt holds them in even when the car is upside down.
-Getting out of a car that has rolled (90-/180-degree rotation) :
Students can safely experience what it is like to get out of the driver's seat or passenger's seat of a car that has rolled.
-Training in how to use an emergency exit hammer (glass-breaking hammer) :
The course teaches students how to break window glass when doors will not open.
Curriculum details

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