EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM OF AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY ASSESSMENT AND PUBLICATION ACTIVITY IN JAPAN

This program is designed to gather information concerning the safety of automobiles and to provide this information to consumers on a regular basis to encourage them to select safer automobiles. The experimental program was designed to study problems concerning active safety and passive safety for five years. Concerning passive safety, full-frontal crash tests proved to be useful from the stand point of repeatability, discrimination, usefulness and internationality in the assessment of crash safety. As the result of this experimental program, the brochure titled Automobile Safety Information was published in Mar. 1996 as a trial. [A] For the covering abstract, see IRRD 896528.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • HORIGOME, N
  • NAITO, M
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON THE ENHANCED SAFETY OF VEHICLES, HELD MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 13-16 MAY 1996. VOLUME 2
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 2049-54

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Crash tests; Public participation; Publicity; Safety
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• ITRD Terms: 1243: Car; 1648: Impact test (crash); 8053: Japan; 142: Public participation; 8573: Publicity; 1665: Safety
• Subject Areas: Research; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00748564
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, USDOT
• Created Date: May 27 1998 12:00AM