Hyundai announced the development and future commercialization of the world’s first multi-collision airbag system that significantly improves airbag performance in multi-collision accidents. Current airbag systems do not offer secondary protection when the initial impact is insufficient to cause them to deploy. Hyundai’s new technology detects occupant position in the cabin following an initial collision. When occupants are forced into unusual positions, the effectiveness of existing safety technology may be compromised. read more ...
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 | With data from multiple sources, Astrid Linder (VTI) proves that our cars are unnecessarily unsafe for women, simply because rear impact crash test dummies are still based on the average male. So what to do? Develop crash test dummies based on both the average female and the average male of course! Astrid Linder and her team have developed EvaRID, the first and so far only virtual average female crash test dummy in the world, to help increase traffic safety for women.
read more ... MIT and Microsoft researchers are developing a new system that could be used to help prevent autonomous vehicles from making mistakes. The model identifies instances where autonomous systems have “learned” from training examples that don’t match what’s actually happening in the real world, which can be used to identify which learned actions could cause costly errors. Engineers could use this model to improve the safety of autonomous vehicles.
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The Allianz Centre for Technology examines pedestrian accidents not only with a conventional view on the frequency and the avoidability, but also with a future-orientated view on the perceptibility of the sensibility of automated driving functions. For this, their own database of damages as well as numerous accident statistics have been combined, analysed information derived for the designing of assistance systems.
read more ... They welcome the European Commission's communication "On the road to automated mobility" as an important milestone in the EU strategy for connected and automated mobility, but stress that further efforts are needed to ensure that there is sufficient funding to support the sector and that there are appropriate safety and liability rules.
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read more ... Mcity at the University of Michigan has outlined a test track-based concept for evaluating the safety of highly automated vehicles before they’re tested on public roads that could emerge as a model for a voluntary standard for safety testing. The project comes after two highly-publicized fatalities last year stoked consumer fears about the safety of driverless vehicles, and slowed development of the technologies that have the potential to save lives.
read more ... Manipulating a cellphone was a contributing factor in more than 800 crash deaths on U.S. roads during 2017 amid a marked increase in the percentage of drivers observed interacting with cellphones, new IIHS research indicates. The estimated number of deaths, however, still represents a fraction of the overall crash death toll. Drivers observed in a 2018 IIHS roadside survey were 57 percent more likely to be manipulating a cellphone than drivers in a 2014 survey.
read more ... At CES, ZF highlighted its powerful sensor portfolio which can more accurately detect vehicle surroundings – both inside and outside of the vehicle – and thereby help to enhance the safety of conventional and automated vehicles. The resulting architecture – including a new, full-range radar, solid-state LiDAR, innovative cameras and acoustic sensors – are combined with supercomputers from the ZF ProAI product family to create a powerful overall sensor system.
read more ... European auto technology supplier Valeo has publicly embraced Intel’s model for safer automated vehicle (AV) decision-making and agreed to collaborate on standards development in Europe and elsewhere. Baidu reported the first open-source implementation of Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS).
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