For Construction Pros

Engineered Guardrail System Improves Safety and Profitability

Conventional guardrail systems are constructed on the jobsite of lumber and are time-consuming to build and erect, require constant maintenance and are commonly discarded as waste at the conclusion of ...
The Drive

Watch a 7,000-LB Rivian R1T Destroy a Guardrail in Eyebrow-Raising Test

In the 1990s, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility looked into the then-50-year-old highway guardrail system and found it to be incapable of handling the increasing number of SUVs and pickups at the ...
Finance & Commerce

Nation’s guardrail system may need to be adapted to handle heavy EVs

LINCOLN, Neb. — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on the ...
Yahoo

Crash tests indicate nation's guardrail system can't handle heavy electric vehicles

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, ...
WTEN

US’s guardrail system can’t handle heavy EVs, preliminary test crashes indicate

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on ...
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Crash tests indicate nation’s guardrail system can’t handle heavy electric vehicles

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, ...