International Safety and Crash-Test Regulations: Current Status and Future Developments
Development of Frontal Restraint Systems meeting Legal and Consumer Protection Requirements
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Euro NCAP mobilizes new Partners to promote safer and cleaner Mobility in EuropeFour organisations from across Europe - including Germany s largest vehicle inspection company DEKRA, the German Insurance Association, GDV, and the Automobile clubs of Austria, ÖAMTC, and Switzerland, TCS - have officially joined the European New Car Assessment Programme as affiliate members.
read more ... Incentivizing Implementation of Collision Avoidance Technology through U.S. NCAPNTSB Board Member Michael Graham publishes the article "Incentivizing Implementation of Collision Avoidance Technology through NCAP" at the NTSB Safety Compass.
read more ... FMVSS Considerations for Vehicles with Automated Driving Systems: Volume 1This report evaluates the regulatory text and Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance test procedures with the goal of identifying possible options to address unnecessary/unintended regulatory barriers for the compliance verification of ADS-dedicated vehicles that lack manually operated driving controls. It describes activities focused on twelve Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. read more ... THI Research Project funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation with 658,000 EURThe SAVE-ROAD research project of Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt to increase road safety is being funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation with around 658,000 euros. This makes the project one of four Bavaria-wide projects selected by the Board of Trustees of the Bavarian Research Foundation in the first funding round in 2020.
read more ... Staying on Track despite Malfunctions: How Driverless Shuttles get safely from A to BFerrying visitors from tram stop to exhibition center, supplementing public transport routes, moving containers full of packages in a logistics center: all these are possible use cases for driverless shuttles. The main thing is for them to be able to get safely from A to B safely in both senses: reliably and without danger. This is what Project 3F, "Driverless and fault-tolerant vehicles in the low-speed range," set out to achieve, with a focus on fail-safe operation."
read more ... ViVA II has now been completed successfullyA sustainable transport system without life and health loss is part of the Swedish transport political goals. The largest cause of impairment due to traffic accidents is the so called whiplash injury. Through VIVA II, Virtual Vehicle Safety Assessment Step 2: Open Source Human Body Models and Crash Testing contributing steps are in this direction.
read more ... Automated Cars on Motorways: Active and Passive Safety AspectsAutomated driving is expected to make traffic flow more efficiently and reduce the number of road accident victims as well as emissions and traffic jams. The German Insurers Accident Research has carried out a comprehensive study on motorway accidents involving cars. The aim of the study was to determine the overall safety effect of automated driving function.
read more ... Can Child Rear Seat Alerts help prevent Hot-car Deaths?Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) are studying rear seat alerts, both manufacturer and aftermarket options, in an effort to help save lives. Every year, 38 children on average die in the United States inside a hot car, according to the National Safety Council. In 2018, pediatric vehicular heatstroke became the leading cause of nontraffic child fatalities nationwide.
read more ... Driver Assistance Systems are improvingCollision avoidance systems are eliminating more crashes as the technology improves, according to a new study of insurance claims data from various BMW models. However, the impact of partially automated driving remains murky. In its latest study, the Highway Loss Data Institute compared insurance claims data from BMW vehicles for model years 2013-17.
read more ... ANCAP welcomes new ChairANCAP announces the appointment of Mr Andy Cornish as its new Chair. Mr Cornish, who has been an Independent Director since 2017, takes up the role of Chair after Ms Wendy Machin recently signalled her intention to retire from the Board.
read more ... Mcity develops Safety Testing Methodology, Scoring Approach for Highly Automated VehiclesMcity at the University of Michigan has developed a testing methodology for highly automated vehicles, or HAVs, within a closed test facility to ensure their safety before public road testing and deployment. Such tests could be used to create an independent assessment of the safety performance of HAVs, which is a crucial element for improving the public s trust in automated vehicle technology.
read more ... Making left Turns safer for PedestriansBollards and rubber curbs that prevent drivers from cutting across intersections at a diagonal can make streets safer for pedestrians, according to a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Such "centerline hardening" forces drivers to turn more slowly at close to a right angle by blocking the diagonal path through the crosswalk.
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