A new round of results of the Latin American Child Restraint Systems Evaluation Programme, PESRI, was released with the safety performance of 12 Child Restraint Systems (CRS) models sold in Latin America and the Caribbean region. Two results are also added from models that were evaluated in 2019 only with ISOFIX anchorages and were now tested with seatbelt.
Image: PESRI read more ... A violent crash into the side of the truck is nothing to long for. But that is exactly what Scania s engineers deliberately orchestrate to improve safety in electric trucks.
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read more ... Part 3: Safeguarding Automated Driving We are pleased to have found a renowned expert in Dipl.-Phys. Udo Steininger, who will accompany the developments around "Automated Driving" in a monthly column in SafetyNews. Udo Steiniger is a senior expert for vehicle safety at TÜV SÜD and has specialized in automated driving since 2006.
read more ... Women are much more likely than men to suffer a serious injury when they are involved in a crash, but much of the heightened risk is related to the types of vehicles women drive and the circumstances of their crashes, rather than physical differences, new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows.
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read more ... Major safety rating systems used around the world don t use an updated representation of an average female in their tests for car safety. In fact, they don t even put a female dummy in the drivers seat for most crash tests in the US. This has major implications for the safety of women driving cars.
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read more ... The UK is set to be the first European country to permit vehicles to be operated using a form of automated driving made possible by so-called automated lane keeping systems (ALKS), following an agreement on the specifications for ALKS at the UNECE in Geneva last summer.
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read more ... Bosch teams up with Microsoft to develop a software platform to seamlessly connect cars to the cloud. The goal of this collaboration is to simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of vehicle software throughout a car s lifetime in accordance with automotive quality standards.
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read more ... Version 1.4.1 of the X-Crash Zero software for evaluating advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in modern motor vehicles has been released. Extensive enhancements with analysis support for new test scenarios and the new feature of dynamic graphical display of the test result set new standards in the evaluation of the safety of driver assistance systems.
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read more ... The New Car Assessment Programme for Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN NCAP) organized its 4th ASEAN NCAP Grand Prix Awards 2020 event on 16 February 2021. The fourth biannual event was held online using the Webex platform as the current COVID-19 pandemic situation does not permit cross-border travels and face-to-face social activities in a physical setting.
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read more ... Humanetics improves hip shields for the Q10 child ATD with an updated manufacturing process to produce more consistent parts with a higher performance specification. Humanetics tested the hip shields as part of the Q10 2020 qualification.
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read more ... The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is recognizing 49 models for providing the highest level of safety - more than double the number that earned the TOP SAFETY PICK+ award last year.
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read more ... Three landmark UN vehicle regulations - Cyber Security and Cyber Security Management Systems, Software Updates and Software Updates Management Systems, Automated Lane Keeping Systems adopted last June by the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations entered into force on 22 January 2021, as notified by the United Nations Secretary General.
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read more ... Joyson Safety Systems will supply several components to General Motors s hand s free driver assistance feature, Super Cruise. With the support of Australia-based advanced vision technology company, Seeing Machines Limited, JSS is providing General Motors with the advanced Driver Attention System.
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read more ... The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) announced the release of the inaugural Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP) report, Using Electronic Devices While Driving: Legislation and Enforcement Implications, published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board (TRB) and funded through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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read more ... REE Automotive (REE) mergers with 10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corp, establishs a new state-of-the-art Engineering Centre of Excellence. The new Engineering Centre will expedite REE s strategic plans to meet anticipated global demand for its breakthrough REEcorner and Electric Vehicle (EV) platform technology.
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