The joint project covers research on collisions across motor sport disciplines, and will include analysis of safety elements such as seat structures and seatbelt positioning, with a focus on minimizing spinal injury. The Global Institute, which is the safety research partner of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), will use the results to put forward proposals to update motor sport regulations and safety equipment.

Although crash dummies are commonly used in crash tests, they do not allow for easy and detailed analysis of how collisions impact the brain, internal organs and certain other parts of the body. As a result, Toyota and Toyota Central R&D Labs Inc. have developed THUMS, which runs computer simulations of actual conditions during a crash and of the mechanisms of injury occurrence, including that of injuries to internal organs and other parts of the body.

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