The study provided much confirming detail to the general plan of the program and program objectives, and has shown points of association of the program with systems approaches to traffic safety. The two main aspects of the feasible program reported are: (1) A system of safety definitions and safety ratings, stemming from detailed performance tests, which is suitable as a basis for legislative and administrative requirements or standards, and (2) A thoroughly tested prototype safety car, demonstrating practicality of a number of advanced safety functions integrated in one producible design and specifiable for purchase or placement in the ratings system. Safety performance features and tests passed by the vehicle are graded individually and can be used as labels for a specific vehicle. Both over-all ratings and individual performance features are defined and graded so that their effects are understandable to legislators or automobile users. Existing private and public safety standards, or sections of such standards, would be employed to maintain compatability with existing industry practice wherever possible. For design purposes, safety performance features of the prototype safety car will be selected to meet a similarly chosen set of conditions of usage, again using a formal evaluation logic. It is feasible for a combination of features to be chosen for a broad usage safety car that could reduce occupant injuries and fatalities by more than one half with approximately the same degree of complexity and cost found in present day full-size low priced cars.
Safety Car Program. Feasibility Study
1966
273 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Road Transportation , Industrial Safety Engineering , Human Factors Engineering , Passenger vehicles , Safety , Feasibility studies , Design , Structural properties , Systems engineering , Performance(Engineering) , Safety devices , Vehicle chassis components , Cost effectiveness , Motor vehicle accidents
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