After many years as CEO of MESSRING, a pioneering company in the development and manufacturing of crash test technology, Dierk Arp is entering his well-deserved retirement.

MESSRING, the global crash test technology provider, has signed a distribution agreement with NAC Image Technology Inc.

Reliable measuring and testing equipment is an essential basis for engineers and vehicle developers.

As diverse as road traffic is, so must the tests for validating safety systems be. With the ASTERA E-Scooter, MESSRING presents another cornerstone for variable and diversified tests with so-called Vulnerable Road Users (VRU).

MESSRING has moved to its new company premises. The building on the Air Tech Campus Oberpfaffenhofen in Friedrichshafener Strasse 4c has been gradually put into operation over the past two weeks. On Saturday, the last moving boxes of the approximately 150 employees had been transported from the old offices.

Hybrid and all-electric drive technologies are expected to continue to gain market share, which will also increase the need for suitable test tools of the energy storage systems used. Lithium-ion packs which are typically used in electric cars usually weigh between 200 and 700kg or even more.

The increasing application of emergency braking systems to avoid collisions with other vehicles or 'Vulnerable Road Users' (VRU) requires new test scenarios and tools. The reliability of safety systems needs to be tested and validated for a wide range of traffic situations.

The small overlap components test crash is one of the major challenges for the structural strength of vehicles. One of the main assessment criteria is the intrusion of tires, body and chassis parts into the passenger cabin.

The safety of autonomous vehicles and driver assistance systems is closely linked to the performance of the sensors used. The driving assistants are dependent on the accurate recording of the environment. The weather has the greatest disturbing influence on the environmental measurement via camera, radar and lidar.