A STUDY OF THE SAFETY PERFORMANCE OF PRODUCTION VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH DRIVER AIR BAGS IN THE NHTSA (NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION) TEST PROGRAMS

This paper presents an analysis of the safety performance for vehicles equipped with restraint conditions from the crash test results obtained in the FMVSS No. 208 compliance test programme and from the New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP). The restraint conditions include: (1) the belt systems (three points and two-points systems); (2) the air bag system; and (3) combined belt/air systems. Additionally, a summary is presented of the results obtained from a test programme of static deployments of selected production driver air bag systems. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 864606.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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• Authors:
  • HOLLOWELL, W T
  • FREY, F J
• Conference:
  • THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY VEHICLES, NOVEMBER 4-7, 1991, PARIS, FRANCE. VOLUME 2
• Publication Date: 1993-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1047-1054

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air bags; Anthropometry; Conferences; Crash tests; Drivers; Dummies; Head; Manual safety belts; Safety; Vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 1465: Air bag (restraint system); 1618: Anthropometric dummy; 8525: Conference; 1772: Driver; 1648: Impact test (crash); 1665: Safety; 1476: Safety belt; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00665021
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 9 1994 12:00AM