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Reducing the Risk of Driver Injury from Common Steering Control Devices in Frontal Collisions
Technical Paper
1999-01-0759
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Steering control devices are used by people who have difficulty gripping the steering wheel. These devices have projections that may extend up to 14 cm toward the occupant. Testing indicated that contact with certain larger steering control devices with tall rigid projections could severely injure a driver in a frontal collision. In order to reduce this injury risk, an alternative, less injurious design was developed and tested. This design, which included replacing unyielding aluminum projections with compliant plastic ones, produced significantly lower peak contact pressure and less damage to the chest of a cadaver test subject, while maintaining the strength necessary to be useful.
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Shaw, G., Dalrymple, G., and Ragland, C., "Reducing the Risk of Driver Injury from Common Steering Control Devices in Frontal Collisions," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-0759, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-0759.Also In
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