Parking Crashes: The Rationale for Action and the Development of Test Procedures

During the last decade parking and manoeuvring accidents appear to be increasingly relevant in third party damage liability and first party or motor own damage claims; a trend evident in many countries around the world. At the same time, vehicle manufacturers have offered a rapidly increasing variety of advanced driver assist systems such that there is greater scope for the avoidance of collisions than ever before. The low speed nature of parking and manoeuvring crashes strongly suggests that this problem should be solvable using technologies similar to those already used in other applications. In fact, several systems directly influencing parking crashes already exist, including proximity based warning systems, systems that will detect parking spaces and park semi-automatically and automatic braking systems similar to autonomous emergency braking (AEB) that function in reverse. This paper aims to assess the scale of the problem with low speed manoevring crashes, identify the most common collision mechanisms, assess the potential of the different technologies to solve the problem and to describe the development of test procedures capable of characterising system performance in relation to real world crashes.

• Record URL:
  http://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/24/isv7/main.htm
• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Grover, Colin
  • Avery, Matthew
  • Knight, Iain
• Conference:
  • 24th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV)
  • Location: Gothenburg , Sweden
  • Date: 2015-6-8 to 2015-6-11
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 24th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Traffic Safety Through Integrated Technologies

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic braking; Crashes; Parking; Test procedures
• Uncontrolled Terms: Low speed collisions
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01570634
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-0348
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 24 2015 12:10PM