Poor hazard perception skills have been shown to contribute to novice driver crash involvement. Yet driving and riding differ in terms of hazards, responses and consequences and many novice motorcyclists are experienced drivers. Therefore the extent to which the findings of research into car driver hazard perception and responding are relevant to motorcyclists may be limited. This paper present...

In this paper, an objective method for the conversion of post-crash vehicle deformation to crash energy is presented. While severity assessment standard test configurations relatively robust, bias in real-world reconstruction a well-known problem. A reduce constructed by focusing on deformation, principle direction force ( PDOF), and type VT) only. The analysis was restricted 12 PDOF six VT. vo...

Crash incompatibility between disparate classes of passenger vehicles is an issue of growing global concern. There is widespread consensus, both in the U.S. and internationally, that any regulation or test procedure focusing on crash compatibility should be a globally harmonized standard. However, this may prove to be a challenging effort due to huge differences in U.S. and international fleet ...

In this contribution, the extended Optimal Uncertainty Quantification framework is integrated within context of reliability-based design optimizations (RBDO). By that, all advantages offers for polymorphic uncertainty quantification, such as ability to incorporate exact or bounded moment information on epistemic uncertainties without requirement specification an underlying probability distribut...

Whiplash injuries resulting from rear impacts are one of the most important injury categories with regard to long-term consequences. Most rear impacts lead to no injury or to symptoms that are temporary. Impacts where the duration of symptoms differs need to be separated in analyses in order to isolate representative rear impact conditions in which more long-lasting whiplash injuries occur. The...

A simple, but realistic, model of an autonomous emergency brake (AEB) system was studied. Using Matlab, the model was applied to 543 car‐to‐pedestrian and 607 car‐to‐bicyclist real‐world collisions gathered from the highly detailed German In‐Depth Accident Study Pre‐Crash Matrix (GIDAS PCM) and weighted for representativeness. All collisions were to the front of the car. The aim was ...

There is a general belief that requesting driving assessments for older drivers without evidence of cognitive impairment is a poor use of resources. There is, however, limited empirical evidence to support this view. We prospectively followed 56 neurologically-healthy drivers aged 70–84 years for 24 months to determine whether a non-enforced pass or fail outcome on an on-road driving assessment...