AUTOMOBILE-ATTENUATOR COMPATIBILITY IN 1985: SOME DESIGNER GUIDELINES

Extensive analysis of automobile accident data from the designer's point of view reveals, among other things, the importance of fixed-object collisions in automobile societal losses. Moreover, the analysis has yielded information about the distributions of speed and injury in such crashes. As a results, the fixed-object collision situation can be described rather completely in terms of societal cost and can be extrapolated by assumption to the situation to be expected 10 years hence when smaller cars in greater numbers will be using our highway system. When combined with results of recent subcompact car crashworthiness efforts, the analysis makes possible a rough engineering characterizatrion of the optimal crash attenuator for the occupants of tomorrow's family car.

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• Authors:
  • Warner, Charles Y
  • Petersen, Richard
• Conference:
  • 54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia
  • Date: 1975-1-13 to 1975-1-17
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 50-57
• Monograph Title: Design for Crash Survival of Automobile Occupants
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 586
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Compact automobiles; Crash cushions; Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crashworthiness; Motor vehicles; Single vehicle crashes; Social values; Speed; Traffic speed
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fixed object
• Old TRIS Terms: Small car
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00141518
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309025508
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-019 611
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Nov 17 1976 12:00AM