Motor Vehicle Safety: Engineering Solutions and Beyond

Introducing Automotive E/e Safety Engineering: Challenges and Solutions Introducing Automotive E/e Safety Engineering: Challenges and Solutions

Functions such as adaptive cruise control, crash protection systems, active body control and ESP are increasing in complexity and taking an ever more active role in controlling the car. These functions are realized by systems of sensors, actuators and interconnected electronic control units. The systems must be designed to function under a variety of operating conditions and must adhere to a nu...

Exploiting Motor Vehicle Information and Communications Technology for Transportation Engineering

Technology already exists to capture and communicate a variety of information from motor vehicles. Automobiles are equipped with sensors and can reliably report their location, velocity, and condition via cellular telecommunications. Truck location tracking with global positioning systems is common, and prototype systems exist for characterizing surrounding traffic and roadway conditions. Given...

Regulation and Legal Culture: The Case of Motor Vehicle Safety

Motor-vehicle safety: a 20th century public health achievement.

The reduction of the rate of death attributable to motor-vehicle crashes in the United States represents the successful public health response to a great technologic advance of the 20th century-the motorization of America. Six times as many people drive today as in 1925, and the number of motor vehicles in the country has increased 11-fold since then to approximately 215 million. The number of ...

New recommendations on motor vehicle safety for child passengers.

Despite significant reductions in the number of children killed in motor vehicle crashes over the past decade, these crashes continue to be the leading cause of death for children and adolescents older than three years in the United States.1 In 2010, more than 4,000 children and adolescents younger than 21 years died in motor vehicle crashes,2 and an additional 600,000 were injured.1 Promoting ...