In Europe, Sweden specifically, there’s a safety exam known as the Moose Test, sometimes called the Elk Test. It aims to ensure a car can sharply perform an s-shaped maneuver to avoid unexpected ...
Tesla's Model Y is heavier and taller than the Model 3, so one might expect it to struggle in the moose test. However, the Model 3 performed like a champion in the moose test, which raised the bar for ...
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It’s no secret that Porsche makes great handling cars but we don’t always link that ability to safety. A new video demonstrating how the Boxster handles the infamous Moose Test might change that ...
Swedish publication Teknikens Värld has a reputation for calling out automakers who fail its proprietary moose test, in which a fully loaded vehicle is driven through an S-shaped obstacle-avoidance ...
Crash testing a vehicle versus moose scenario might come off as a joke, but if you drive around in Sweden, Canada, the Northern U.S. Europe, Japan (apparently!) or anywhere where Alces alces roam, you ...
A school bus is probably the last thing you could imagine taking the famous moose test. And yet it happened, and the results will blow your mind. The moose test, despite its peculiar name, is a basic ...
The Tesla Model 3 has been put through the “moose test” in order to test its handling capabilities. The “moose test” is an evasive maneuver test that consists of determining how well a certain vehicle ...
The new Toyota RAV4 has failed the moose test to which it was subjected by Teknikens Värld. During a recent round of testing with two RAV4 models, the Swedish publication discovered some rather ...
Apparently, a 'Moose Test' is when a car must veer to avoid something like a moose. If you don't live in an area where a moose, bear, or buck may wander across the road, you may be able to equate this ...
One of the most difficult safety tests in the automotive world, aside from actual crash tests, is the dreaded moose test. No doubt, many car manufacturers have had their automobiles fail badly at this ...
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