The 5-Star Safety Rating Program that Americans use when shopping for new passenger vehicles "fails consumers" by not including collision-avoidance and other technology in the ratings and is approaching "near irrelevance," National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said. In March, the NHTSA asked for comments on changes to U.S. NCAP. The NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy responded with a 13-page letter detailing ways to improve the program.
Image: NTSB read more ... Humanetics is delighted to announce a partnership with Encopim to manufacture Humanetics' market leading Pedestrian and Occupant Protection and E-Liner Sled equipment. This partnership will also create an enhanced service and support network for Humanetics' customers.
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read more ... Eight electric vehicle manufacturers have incorporated an NTSB recommendation on improving their emergency response guides and incorporating vehicle-specific information for fighting high-voltage lithium-ion battery fires in electric vehicles. Honda, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Porsche, Proterra, Van Hool, Volkswagen and Volvo have successfully completed the actions asked for in the NTSB recommendation.
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read more ... MGA is excited to announce the West Coast geographic expansion with a new test facility in Hughson, California. Localization has been a core principle of MGA starting approximately 30 years ago, with the purchase of the Wisconsin proving grounds and test facility in the Detroit region. As the ninth location in North America, the California facility will serve as a strong addition to existing automotive, space, and aircraft testing capabilities MGA offers.
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read more ... The optimisation of traffic flow, the prevention of accidents and safer, more relaxed driving these are the objectives of IMAGinE, a German research project for the automation of intelligent manoeuvres and cooperative risk avoidance in real time that has now reached its successful completion.
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read more ... On June 8, 2022 Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and the Consumer Federation of America filed comments to the federal register outlining proposed upgrades to the U.S. New Car Assessment Program. The comments describe in great detail how U.S. NCAP can be improved to achieve its stated purpose of educating consumers on vehicle safety and incentivizing automakers to improve the safety of their products.
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read more ... Continental has developed an innovative display that allows vehicle information to be displayed dynamically, either in a private mode or in a way that everyone can see. With the new display technology, the so-called Switchable Privacy Display, the technology company allows front passengers to use multimedia content such as videos or the infotainment system without distracting the driver from road traffic.
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read more ... Women are almost twice as likely as men to be trapped in a vehicle after a traffic collision, according to a new study of UK injury data. The authors say the research, which also looked at the differences in injury patterns by sex, may help vehicle manufacturers, emergency services personnel and road-safety organisations to tailor responses with the aim of more equitable outcomes by targeting equal performance of safety measures and reducing excessive risk to one sex over another.
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read more ... The automotive technology company Veoneer has signed an agreement to equip BMW Group vehicles with camera heads for their next generation vision system for Automated Driving. The camera heads support the cooperation between BMW Group, Qualcomm Technologies, and Arriver.
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read more ... NAVYA welcomes the progress being made in the regulations governing autonomous vehicles which support the deployment of autonomous vehicles on an industrial scale. On April 29th the US state of Oklahoma was given the green light by the Senate to operate self-driving cars on the open road, making it the 30th state to legislate in favor of autonomous vehicles. A further major breakthrough was achieved at federal level with the adoption in March 2022 of the regulation releasing car makers from the obligation to install manual controls, such as a steering wheel and pedals, in self-driving vehicles.
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read more ... In a new study, MIT researchers demonstrate a machine-learning approach that can learn to control a fleet of autonomous vehicles as they approach and travel through a signalized intersection in a way that keeps traffic flowing smoothly.
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read more ... In order to make it possible to experience loads on the spine in the future, we have equipped the PRIMUS biofidelic dummy with a 6-axis force cell from Kistler in the lumbar spine, which measures the forces and moments that act on the lumbar spine. In this way, permanent loads (vibrations, oscillations) can be measured. Due to the lifelike reproduction of the PRIMUS spine, loads in "unnatural" postures (twisted or bent back) can also be determined.
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