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That’s the so-called B column. This is part of the safety passenger cell, which is not to be deformed in an accident according to mobility, so that the survival space of the occupants is not reduced and its recovery is made difficult by jammed doors.

The Auto Ford Fusion pictured has already been relatively old, but in recent years there have been enormous progress in the interaction of a deformable crumb zone and a rigid passenger cell, especially through the use of new, high-strength and high-strength steel types.

In 2012, the VW UP!, built with the sister models Skoda Citigo and Seat Mii that were no longer produced. This was the first large-scale passenger car in 2011, where these types of steel were used:

• hot-formed high-strength steels for the passenger cell, e.g. for the B column, which must withstand the highest forces in a side impact and impact
• so-called tailored blanks, sheets in which the forces are better distributed and removed with targeted welded reinforcements

Thus, the ancient material of steel will be in itself a slumbering potential. By means of these special steel types and processing techniques, for example, in the case of Golf 7, it has been possible not only to reverse the trend towards increasing vehicle weight, but also to further increase passive safety.