Car Safety Features Can Foil First-Responders

I wonder how good are these safety features if they prevent you from being rescued. Personally I'd like to see a program funded by local car dealers to provide instruction and equipment to firefighters in there area for the 3 most popular cars they sell.

Well, if a hardened chassis allows the driver to survive a crash that would have previously led to death, then I guess its not surprising that extraordinary means may be needed to cut through it. I agree that there has to be some communication from manufacturers to first responders to update rscue protocols based on new tech. I wonder, though, if car manufacturers, in their battery of safety tests, actually try to extricate crash survivors from their vehicles. We all know they use crash test dummies to test the efect of impact on humans, but do they take it a step further and actually work with rescue personnel to see how tough it is to get someone out? If not, this seems like a good place to start - let the engineers see the difficulties and try to come up with solutions.

Is it really essential to focus much attention on extrication tests? Is it possible to replicate with any accuracy the myriad of structral deformations that can occur on impact? So many vehicles exist, all with significantly different structural properties, that I think it would be nigh-on impossible to contruct a set of rescue protocols that can encompass the majority of circumstances.