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The increasing number of End-of-Life-Vehicles (ELVs) as well as the increasing use of plastic parts in vehicles is leading to an ever increasing burden on the environment (caused by waste). Not only ELVs but also manufacture and use of vehicles gives rise to waste. Apart from the avoidance of waste this problem can only be solved by the continuous development of dismantling and recycling technologies as well as by the establishment of an economic market for this. To guarantee this a neutral supervision of the processes is necessary as well as the engagement of the automotive industry and possibly the introduction of new legal requirements. The neutral supervision offers, therefore, an effective contribution to a clean, environmentally conscious and safe future.

To obtain more realistic results from crash tests, the vehicles are driven by their own engine. Operation of the vehicles without driver is possible due to an electronic control unit integrated in the test vehicle. This system is therefore called Electronically Controlled Vehicle-Crash (ECV-Crash). Advantages of the system are mobility and flexibility of the crash configurations. This paper while bringing out the differences of the ECV system and usual tests discusses the special features of the system. Also head-on collision tests against barriers and especially with two independently driven cars is described and results are discussed.