Today, a rebellious race is taking place among the automobile industry so as to produce highly developed models and the automobile industry has seen a market shift towards sport-utility vehicles. In order to maintain the level of comfort that customers expect from vehicles and still maintain the high safety standards of automobiles, attempts are made to develop an ideal vehicle (motorcycle) whi...

The ability of hospital-based car seat rental programs to provide car seats inexpensively throughout an entire state and the effect of these rental programs on car seat usage by newborns were evaluated. In July 1979 individuals and groups committed to child passenger safety formed a coalition called Vermont SEAT (Seatbelts Eliminate Automobile Tragedies). During the next 3 years SEAT asked the ...

Automobile seat design specifications cannot be established without considering the comfort expectations of the target population. This contention is supported by published literature, which suggests that ergonomics criteria, particularly those related to physiology, do not satisfy consumer comfort. The objective of this paper is to challenge ergonomics criteria related to anthropometry in the ...

OBJECTIVES This study presents an investigation of anti-whiplash features that can be implemented in a car seat to reduce whiplash injuries in the case of a rear impact. The main emphasis is on achieving a seat design with good energy absorption properties. METHODS A biofidelic 50th percentile male multi-body human model for rear impact is developed to evaluate the performance of car seat des...

Recently, the general public in Japan is attaching increasing importance to the wearing of seatbelts by rear seat occupants. Some projects have been launched to have more rear seat occupants wear seatbelts in Japan. The National Agency for Automobile Safety and Victim's Aid (NASVA), for example, conducted a research project to evaluate the effectiveness of wearing a seatbelt based on crash test...

The use of manual (i.e., active) restraint systems (or seat belts) in cars has increased dramatically over the last several decades, changing from around 10% in the late 1970s to as much as 68% in the 1990s (Datta & Guzek, 1992; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA], 1996b). Several factors are responsible for this increase. One important determinant has been the passage of man...

trauma during pregnancy is remarkably common, motor vehicle crashes are cause of hospitalized trauma during pregnancy. trauma occurs in 5% of pregnancies that appropriate high proportion of maternal and fetal mortality. motor vehicle crashes, falls, assaults, including domestic violence, are all important mechanisms of injury. motor vehicle accidents account for more than 50% of all traumas dur...

Computer has become the most significant helper and tool around the world. It is used in all kinds of electronic devices and improves their usability much. Automobile is a great example in this topic to show how computer changes the way people interact with an item. During the past decades, more and more mechanical devices in automobile are replaced by electrical substitutions and the interface...

Introduction Advances in diagnostic imaging have led to remarkable improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic disorders. However, the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic injury remains perplexing. Since the pancreas is a retroperitoneal organ that is narrow and elongated mediolateraly, diagnosing only the presence or absence of injury, let alone its location and extent, is difi...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the mechanism of injury for foot and ankle fractures resulting from automobile accidents to create a basis for developing an improved design for protection. DESIGN Retrospective. SETTING Level I trauma center with accident research unit. PATIENTS Automobile accident reports and medical records of individuals injured in the accidents. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS Techn...