A Safety Rating for Far-Side Crashes

A research team from Australia, Europe and the United States has conducted the research needed to provide a technology base for far-side crash protection. To date the findings are as follows: (1) in the USA and Australia there are large opportunities in far-side impact injury reduction, especially if safety features could mitigate injuries in both far-side planar impacts and rollovers, (2) a modified MADYMO human facet model was validated for use in evaluating far-side countermeasures, (3) either the THOR-NT or the WorldSID dummy would be satisfactory test devices for assessing far-side protection with minor modifications such as changing in the location of the chest instrumentation and (4) injury criteria and risk functions for use with WorldSID in far-side crashes have been documented. There is now a sufficient technology base so that far-side protection can be evaluated and rated by consumer information tests. The full text of this paper may be found at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv21/09-0217.pdf For the covering abstract see ITRD E145407.

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