Experimental Safety Vehicle
Experimental Safety Vehicle (ESV) is the designation for experimental concept cars which are used to test car safety ideas.
In 1973 the U.S. DOT announced its ESV project, the aim of which was to obtain safer vehicles by 1981.: A car produced by this effort was known as the Minicar RSV.
In 1991, the ESV abbreviation was backronymed to Enhanced Safety of Vehicles.
Read more about Experimental Safety Vehicle: Some ESVs
Famous quotes containing the words experimental, safety and/or vehicle:
“If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“There is always safety in valor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Language is an archeological vehicle ... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.”
—Russell Hoban (b. 1925)