FRONTAL IMPACT PROTECTION REQUIRES A WHOLE SAFETY SYSTEM INTEGRATION. IN: SEAT BELTS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ESSENTIAL SAFETY SYSTEM

The paper looks beyond the seat belt wearing to improve the frontal impact protection to reduce the number of the severe road accident victims. Some of the necessary complementary actions to be considered include: the front end of the trucks needs to be modified to avoid underide and too severe decelerations of car occupants; due to the interaction between the protection in frontal and in lateral impact, the gain in frontal could be lost by an increase of the aggressiveness of the impacting car in side collisions; in car-to-car head-on collisions, the gain would be reduced by the increasing aggressiveness of the heavier car. The paper presents the quantification of the expected gains for the most prioritary countermeasures, discusses the major interactions between them, and tries to define the required conditions to optimize the whole safety system.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper No. 916140, presented at the ESV Conference S9-O-13, 1991.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

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• Authors:
  • Tarriere, C
  • Thomas, C
  • Trosseille, Xavier
• Conference:
  • Paper No. 916140, presented at the ESV Conference S9-O-13, 1991.
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 680-688

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Countermeasures; Frontal crashes; Integrated systems; Occupant protection devices; Restraint systems; Vehicle design
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00978821
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0768011221
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 8 2004 12:00AM